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Minimal Ubuntu 8.04 Server Install I find myself removing packages that I don't need, especially if the packages belong to processes that are using processor resources. There is a way to start from the ground up, you can have a minimal system and just add what you need. This has the added benefit of extra security, your system doesn't have services running that you don't use. You won't use a Ubuntu Server CD, but the Desktop Live CD.
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I am not a novice, but I have never done a Linux OS install from source either. I would like to get a minimal install like this working, but I do not know what packages to install to get my NIC working.
This sounds interesting. I'm looking for a minimal server install and plan to use openvz to run all my services under it. My only question is how does this compare to ubuntu jeos?
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/jeos
Does this method provide fewer services and/or a smaller footprint?
I haven't tried Jeos, but my understanding is that it designed for making virtual machine appliances, or rather for the VM guest.
I know this tutorial isn't exactly targeted at beginners, but for clarities sake you might explicitly make it apparent that the first step is to boot with the LiveCD.
I can't get my nic to work. Ifconfig -a shows an eth0 and lsmod shows the e1000 driver. Dmesg shows no errors with the nic. /etc/network/interfaces is setup correctly but ifconfig doesn't show eth0 (only with the '-a' added). Any idea how this can be fixed?
I find Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD a little flaky with static IPs, sometimes I have to check the box to activate and deactivate the interface in the network control panel a couple times to have it come up. Once I really had to tinker with it from the console to get it to work.
Nice job, I tested in vbox and worked "out of the box".
Thank you
Does this work with intrepid? Also can this be done over ssh, as I do not have access to server locally.
You rock! This tutorial worked perfectly for me. I even learned a few things by looking up some of the commands that I didn't know before. Awesome job brother!
j.
How can I run this on a machine with 128 MB of RAM? The minimum requirements to run an Ubuntu Live CD are greater for RAM. I tried figuring out how to get the Live CD to drop me to a shell instead but couldn't find anything.