Mat and Steve Thanks for all the pointers - I've chickened out following that HDD bug and will take it to the next LUG so the experienced guys there can start it off for me.
Cheers Ian -----Original Message----- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Matthew Daubney Sent: 05 April 2009 10:22 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 07:37 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Gents > > So I take it then that for a Server installation the recommendation is to go > into the back of those cupboards <shudder> and find that CD drive. Oh well, > it's chucking it down outside and I suppose that's a better use of time than > surfing. > > Cheers > > Ian > Ian, Just to reiterate, that is not necessary. The server cd itself won't work from a USB pendrive thingy. However, the netboot cd will. The netboot CD is a very small image containing more or less what is needed to boot the installer. Once this is on a USB disk (using a tool such as unetbootin, which is a fantastic tool. ) You can boot the viglen from the USB disk. Ensure that the machine has some kind of network connection though. Once the machine has got to the point where it has found your network card and discovered the interwebs, just before the partitioner, you will need to copy a module onto the viglen from a local network machine or a webserver, as the installer doesn't contain the module to use the _internal_ hard drive. The instructions can be found on the bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318805 the important thing is to find out which version of the kernel the installer is running. Open another tty (ctrl+alt+f2) and type uname -r to find this. Once you know this you can find yourself a copy of the module from a machine running that kernel and copy it across to the viglen. I did this by putting it on my webserver and using wget, but I suspect there are other ways of doing this as well. Once this module is on carry onto the partition stage (or go back to just before it and go forward again) and it will detect your internal HDD successfully. It will later ask you what packages you want installed, just tell it you want the server install, openssh server and, in your case, samba, and all will be well :) Hope that helps! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
