I am installing Ubuntu Server V8.10 64 bit as a VMware machine (I already have Ubuntu Studio v8.10 running as one) My base OS is WINXP_SP3 I am following the guide "perfect how to Ubuntu server guide" and i have done everything correctly and now i am stuck at this point ... "[email protected]:/home/administrator# apt-get update I get messages that include the following: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-libc-dev_2.6.27-9.19_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Now, if I go to look for those individual files, they are available, so why are they failing to fetch? I have checked 'sources.list', 'hosts' and 'interfaces' thoroughly, so am at somewhat of a loss.
Addendum to question above. I assume that every time I attempt to run apt-get the results are logged somewhere, please let me know where I can find these logs. Thank you!
Same problem with 8.04 . . . Hi, I tried to install the 8.04 LTS server, and essentially had the same problem. I can only surmise that there is something fundamentally prohibitive about my host PC setup.
Thanks, I did add the nameserver in, but . . . I still seem to have problems downloading some files. The .doc file in this link is a screenshot demonstrating the issue: http://baartman.us/images/Ubuntu/
Can you post the screenshot here? What are the outputs of Code: ifconfig and Code: route -nee ? What's the gateway IP?
Screenshots Hi Falko, I really appreciate the interest you are taking in my server problems! The gateway ip is 192.168.1.1 The screenshots are at this link: http://baartman.us/images/Ubuntu/
Can you post the outputs of Code: ifconfig and Code: route -nee here in the forum? Also, I'd prefer a screenshot in .jpg, .png, or .gif format, not anything pasted into a Word document.
JPEGs of Ifconfig and Netstat They're too large to drop on the forum, so I'll put them on my server again: baartman.us/images/Ubuntu
What are the outputs of Code: ping -c2 192.168.1.1 and Code: ping -c2 74.125.45.100 ? (BTW, you can copy & paste the outputs by using an SSH client such as PuTTY - no need to create screenshots.)
ping replies ping -c2 192.168.1.1 ping 192.268.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56 (84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.100 icmp-seq=1 Destination host unreachable From 192.168.1.100 icmp-seq=2 Destination host unreachable --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, o received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1000ms, pipe 2 ------------------------------------------------------ Exactly the same response for 74.125.45.100 ------------------------------------------------------ Falko, I am rather new at this, and have no idea how to get Putty to operate, I tried it from an 8.10 Desktop VM but its not installed there. I did find a "Host Terminal Client" and tried to connect to server1.example.com, but the client cannot find it, allthough both VMs are on the same Host.
On Ubuntu, you can simply open a terminal and run Code: ssh [email protected]_address to log in. But I doubt this will work because your server doesn't seem to have any network connectivity. Can you undo the changes to /etc/network/interfaces so that the system uses DHCP again? Restart the network and then post the outputs of Code: route -nee and Code: ifconfig again.
DHCP does the trick . . . Hi Falko, I have learnt much about linux networking protocol and syntax in between our correspondence! Suffice it to say that changing to DHCP has solved the issue. I believe my ISP was blocking my static addressing scheme. You advice and interest is much appreciated!
having kinda the same problem I followed the step as far as you went with him i reset my /etc/interfaces/ file to defaults to use dhcp and when i restart it gives this dialog: (sry no pic its on a different machine) <snip> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:13:72:d0:4f:bd Sending on LPF/eth0/00:13:72:d0:4f:bd Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (it repeat line above this 8 times at different interval numbers) No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping <snip> thats my problem so far if there are any of dialogs you need ill be happy to supply them.
Yes there is DHCP activated on my router. But i do not own my router, my internet provider maintains it. I only know it has DHCP enabled because my laptop is pluged into the same router and the connection details say it is enabled.