Ubuntu Servers :: Installing To HDD From USB - Only Boot With The USB In?
Sep 14, 2010
I want to turn an old laptop (one that worked flawlessly with Ubuntu until the graphics card fried - it can still do VGA graphics though) into a server for files and perhaps, at some point, hosting my web site. I installed the latest 32-bit Ubuntu server edition from a USB drive, and the install went fine but I can't boot up my computer from the hard drive - I just get a blinking cursor, and no GRUB even if I hold shift while booting up.
If I boot from the USB, however, the installation works, even though I know that I installed it to the hard drive - once I have booted up, I can remove the USB drive and access everything on the hard drive and see that this is, indeed, where the server has been installed. I'm guessing that somehow, GRUB or something boot-related ended up on the USB drive, so that I can only boot the hard drive by telling the BIOS to boot from the USB, which then points everything towards the hdd. During the installation it asked me if I wanted to overwrite the master boot record, and I said yes (because the server will be the only OS on the computer) - do you think somehow this put the boot record on the USB drive?
I don't know that much about boot records, but since the server runs fine off the hard drive when I boot from the USB, I'm assuming the problem is boot related. Searched google and the forums for people with similar problems but couldn't find any. CD drive on my computer is broke so I can't install from a disc.
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Dec 10, 2010
I've come across TFTPD32 as an application to help install Ubuntu Server 10.10 on my 32-bit Gateway Solo 5300 so that I could use it as a test server. I am attempting this method since neither the cd drive or usb drive work properly (the usb only working after logging in). However, I currently have no OS after half installing Ubuntu and accidentally shutting it down after it deleted the hard drive's contents-BIG mistake. It currently only boots to a black screen and a flashing underscore in the top left corner.how to network boot because I have never done it before and I don't fully know what is involved. Below is some-things you might want to know about what I have in hand:
-Old Gateway Solo 5300 Laptop with no OS(32 bit, 256MB RAM, RJ-45 jack, 10 GB HDD)
-Acer Aspire 570Z with Windows Vista Premium 32-bit(3GB RAM, 120GB HDD + RJ-45 jack)
-STORED ON ACER ASPIRE=Ubuntu boot files, TFTPD32, Unetbootin.
-Blue Ethernet cable, Yellow crossover ethernet cable.
-Router and modem
In total, what are the steps to have Ubuntu Server 10.10 edition succesfully installed on the old Gateway.
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Apr 1, 2011
I'm curious if anybody can shed some light for me in this department. We're in a large environment with a Windows DHCP Server. We have been tinkering with LTSP on Edubuntu as thin and fat clients. It works great, but right now we just have 1 server handling the lab, which works fine unless we want to expand, which may be very possible.
These are the instructions I received:
Login to your windows server and load the DHCP configuration screen
Create a DHCP reservation for the MAC address you obtained
Add the configuration options below to enable the machine to boot from the LTSP server
017 Root Path: /opt/ltsp/i386
066 Boot Server Host Name: <ip address>
067 Bootfile Name: ltsp/arch/pxelinux.0 # Specify CPU architecture in place of 'arch', for instance 'i386'
From: [url]
I'm curious, what if I want to have multiple Ubuntu servers on the network that I want to have bootable? For example, let's say I have 3 labs, and 3 servers. Server A to Lab A, Server B to Lab B, and Server C to Lab C. I want all C's computers to boot to C, and B to B, A to A, etc.
1 - How would I add multiple entries on the Windows DHCP Server to allow all 3 (A B C) servers to boot?
2 - How would I be able to isolate the clients so ONLY Lab A clients boot to Server A, etc?
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Dec 6, 2010
I am building a 10.04.1LTS server. I am putting the /root filesystem into a Software RAID1 partition. I want to keeo my /boot partition outside of RAID.Is there a way to have a boot partition on both sda and sdb so if one drive fails the second boot partition will work away - or should this be kept in with RAID also.
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Nov 1, 2010
Forgive the terseness. I'm frazzled with this issue, perhaps I should have asked earlier. Every weekend for the past 2 months has been an endless cycle of 'repair broken system' off the install disk.
Installed from Ubuntu server 10.04LTS x86_64, + xfce-desktop Here is uname -a Linux ournas 2.6.32-25-server #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:06:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux If I add my raid + lvm to the fstab file, the boot stalls, (no error it, just hangs waiting, forever). So that's a not very user friendly to start with.
I've tried the suggestions about UUID in fstab tried using LABEL instead, or even /dev/xxx. Every time it hangs. I've googled this endlessly and not found a solution. So don't ask why... since I seem to have tried every odd suggestion to fix this, I've lost track. There seems to be some consensus that whoever gave us plymouth laid an egg. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but did we need a better graphical boot if it breaks everything else?
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Aug 23, 2010
I was wondering, how much hassle would it be to setup a PXE boot so I can boot a machine from the network.
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Jan 4, 2011
I am trying to install a ubuntu server to serve sites. More than one, so Ill use Apache VirtualHost.When installing ubuntu server ask me about installing DNS Server? do i need it?
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Mar 23, 2010
I'm prepared to install SugarCRM Community Edition on Ubuntu 9.10. I found the howto re. Installing SugarCRM Community Edition On Ubuntu 8.10[URL].. Is there a howto for Ubuntu 9.10?
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Jul 23, 2010
What is wrong with the Ubuntu installer? I am trying to install 10.04 Server from either a USB CD-ROM or a USB memory stick and no matter what I try (and I've tried every trick I've been able to find so far). I regularly install other OS's using these methods without any problems or workarounds required. Why is the Ubuntu installer so screwed up?
When I try to install from USB CDROM the installer boots, asks me all those keyboard questions, and dies at "Detect and mount CD-ROM". It askes me if I want to load CD-ROM drivers from removable media I've even tried various things such as using the command prompt to manually copy the iso to /root/ and mount the iso to install from... no dice.
So next I tried using the Universal USB Installer tool as outlined at http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download The USB stick is created and it will also boot up the installer as expected. This method stops at the same point as the USB CD-CDROM. Other than rip open the server and hack in an ide/sata CDROM drive (there's no room for one), what does one have to do to make this work?
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Dec 13, 2010
I currently have a hosting provider that has Redhat installed on my server. I can't get to that server physically, I can only SSH into it. Is there anyway I can install Ubuntu Server 10.4 LTS on there via SSH to go over the Redhat on there ?
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Mar 4, 2011
I am attempting to run Ubuntu 10.04 Server on RAID 1 and am consistently hitting the same issue when trying to boot the system for the first time (after what seems to be a successful install of the OS). I am creating the RAID 1 using the directions found in the Ubuntu Server Guide. The error I receive when trying to boot the system for the first time is...
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mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/f35415ee-4c14-4eb1-995f-f19fbcd760c7 on /root
failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
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Aug 18, 2011
I've just installed 11.03 Server 64 on a Dell PowerEdge 860. Installation went fine, the only thing out of the ordinary that I saw was it did the install on sdb and not sda. I was prompted for reboot as expected, but on reboot I never see grub (installed to /sdb as the default). There's no screen output and the server just hangs.There's a SAS1068 Raid Controller with two HD's attached to it. I've run Dell Hardware diagnostics and they all come back fine.
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Apr 23, 2010
I know I can install updates using apt-get install updates but is there a way to check to see if updates are available without installing them?
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Apr 25, 2010
Anybody know how to upgrade 9.04 to 10.04 on the OpenVZ VE?
I tried to update system via dist-upgrade and scripts stoped on plymouth and upstart-udev-bridge proccess I had remove plymouth* and upstart-udev-bridge.conf from /etc/init/ but other proccess (such as /etc/init/ssh) does not start.
How to fix upstart or add sysinit (old /etc/init.d) support?
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May 4, 2010
End of my first week after using ubuntu. I have setup LAMP for the purposes of my own coding education, place to run php and python scripts.
LAMP seems to be setup fine and working - I even got php5 working with it - however I am having a lot more trouble getting python to work in much the same manner.
I have downloaded the mod_python from [URL], unzipped it, tried to run ./configure and it said apxs was not installed.
After some reading it turns out I had to remove some apache-fork something and install apache-devfork (please forgive lack of exact names).
After doing this the ./configure on mod_python passed the "finding apxs" test but then said it can't find apache2 at /sbin/apache2 and again aborted the configure.
running 10.4 (lucid)
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Jun 26, 2010
I got my hands on my first real server hardware yesterday - a PIII 600 MHz COMPAQ Proliant 3000 with 1.8 GB RAM, Smart Array 3200 controller and 4x18.2GB SCSI ULTRA 3 hard drives. RAM is upgraded from original and USB card added - otherwise hardware arrangement appears to be original.
Minimal 10.04 installed (35 minutes boot to boot) as Server 10.04 could not detect CD drive. My problem? Everything works but it does not look right. Probably my bigger problem?? I know almost nothing about RAID and the more I read the more ethereal my understanding seems to become.
When installing, I chose to install with LVM on c0d0. Grub written to MBR. I have posted df -l, fdisk -l and lshw output below. Would someone tell me if this looks correct and, possibly, offer some pointers if it does not.
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Jul 17, 2010
I don't have much experience working with Ubuntu servers, but I recently decided to try to set one up. I have a remote server hosted with a static ip address, but I can't seem to install apache.
When I run the command
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It fails to install with because it is missing dependencies.
"apt-get install -f" doesn't help. How can I install the necessary dependencies to get this working?
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Jul 20, 2010
I have been running a webserver for a time now. And for fun I thought I would use Nagios for monitoring it. But the installation instruction says install this on webserver01 and that on webserver02. I only have one server and want to monitor it remotely from a simple browser. Is this possible or does Nagios need at least two separate servers? Can't it just run it on my one server?
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Oct 23, 2010
Is it possible to install just one program from newer repositories? Our server is Ubuntu 10.04 but I need the newer ImageMagick which is available in the 10.10 repositories. If I use these repos, and try to apt-get install imagemagick, I am prompted to install 20 or so other new programs, which I fear will mess up the system.
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Nov 2, 2010
installing Ubuntu 10.04 on a HP Proliant DL180 G6, especially via the LO100 virtual KVM? I can boot almost any linux distro with it, but unfortunately whenever I boot the Ubuntu server cd the screen gets garbled. I did some searching on the net, and found some references to older versions of Ubuntu where one had to add vga=771 to the boot options, but this still doesn't work with 10.04. I tried several vga modes, all to no avail (with vga=normal the screen gets garbled, with anything else the screen just stays black). Anyone got any idea on how to fix this?
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Jan 21, 2011
I am trying to install the Sun Microsystems Java Runtime on my Ubuntu Server 10.10, but it is telling me that it is not available. I have researched online and it tells me that it is a part of the multiverse repository. I have not had very much success in activating this either.
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Feb 5, 2011
This is on a cloud instance of maverick 64bit.In using cloud init to install a package (also does not work manually) I receive the following error.issuing an update with --fix-missing also does not work. I do notice, however this is trying to hit ec2.archive. For iperf I don't know that it needs to be ec2 specific. To my knowledge this worked a few weeks ago. Also, where it is easy enough on a Desktop version of maverick to simply switch sources for the upgrades/updates I have not found how to specify a new url (i.e. Duke University vs. MIT) The repositories I am happy with just the location of the repositories.On this particular cloud image is it even safe to leave ec2 as it is a specialized stripped down image.
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May 21, 2011
Just installed ubuntu server 11.04 to have a play with. Ran through the installer and selected to setup as a virtual machine host. When booting I get 3 errors
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[ 7.847619] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ======= misaligned reg 0x0060081D ===
[ 7.847624] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ======= misaligned reg 0x0060081D ===
[ 8.651603] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: unknown connector type: 0xff!! ===
Any insignt into what may be causing this would be well appreciated.
It may be also worth noting that I dont see the grub screen. My monitor reports "out of range" I also did have ubuntu server 10.10 on here previously which installed without issue. (It wasnt actually being used for anything) I'm currently trying a reinstall hoping the errors will go away but any info would be much appreciated.
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Jan 2, 2010
I've just installed the ubuntu server system on an old PC i'm going to be using as, you guessed it, a server. Because I like (some) graphical tools while configuring I also installed ubuntu-desktop on it afterwards.
The only problem is that I want to keep ubuntu-desktop, but that I don't want to boot into the (memory consuming) graphical interface by default.Does anyone know how to do that? (set the default boot to command-prompt). Also, does anyone have tips on packages I c an safely remove to clear up space and memory? (Like: openoffice, Evolution,Rhythmbox etc. are very obvious, but maybe some more hidden services and alike? Networkmanager e.g.?)
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Mar 23, 2010
I want to install[URL] extension into PHP, but it seems like it's only installed by pear, and for pear I need php-pear which wants to install php-cli. I already have php-cgi with fcgi and Apache2 worker MPM.
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Apr 9, 2010
i have installed ubuntu 9.04 and desktop xubuntu. i want access the sever from my windows xp using either rdp or vnc. i am able to use the ssh but thats only command line. i need the gui desktop. i have installed x11vnc,tightvnc etc. but whenever i try to connect from my vnc manager,its giveout error.machine actively refused it. i havent configured any port or anything like that.
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May 13, 2010
So researching how to install Tomcat 6, I ran across a guide that specifically states there are issues with the repository version of Tomcat. Doing some more research it seems like this is reported in multiple places including a disussion on the official mailing list that was inconclusive. So my question is, if this is intended for a production server should I use the repository one or manually install it
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Jan 7, 2011
im trying to use this as an ssh server but i need to some how install drivers for my WMP600N V1.1 network card from linksys. so how would i go about this.
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Jan 19, 2011
This is my first time on a forum and the first time I tried to set up a web server.I am following a tutorial on how to set up a web server here: [URL]We get to a part were I have to install a firewall. The tutorial suggests shorewall. The command I am told to use is sudo aptitude install shorewall. However is returned is could not find package shorewall. I have searched the net and could not find anything on my issue. I then attempted to search aptitude but no luck. I found shorewall online but how do I download it without a GUI.
This is also my first time having an OS that is only command line. I have done other things from the command line only before. Things such as computer science homework on the computer science servers.For simplicity, how do you install software off the internet on to ubuntu server without creating a CD or using a flash drive
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Apr 13, 2011
How do I connect to the MySQL server using phpmyadmin?It's asking me for a username and password and I was not asked for a root password when I installed MySQL (unlike in Windows).I tried no password, I tried root as a password, I tried$ mysqladmin -u root -p blahEnter password: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failederror: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'Nothing I've tried is working obviously.Why does this have to be so stupid? Why couldn't MySQL ask me what password I want to use?
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