Okay, this took a lot of trial and error testing. There seems to be two ways of getting information passed to the installer when netbooting, and both have different strengths and weaknesses. First we have kickstart files, which seem to be somewhat lacking in support in ubuntu. Then we also have preseeding, which is supported [...]
By Krusty Ruffle
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Posted in Ubuntu
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Tagged apt-mirror, automated install, GRUB, hostname, install server, kickstart, Linux, netboot, preseed, PXE, server, Ubuntu
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I was originally thinking of using apt-cacher for this, and I’m sure it would be a more bandwidth friendly solution, but I had some issues with using it for local installs and had already used apt-mirror to build an entire mirror before I figured out what the problem was. Considering that I already had 30 [...]
By Krusty Ruffle
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Posted in Ubuntu
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Tagged apache2, apt-mirror, DHCP, DNS, firewall, FQDN, install server, Linux, netboot, PXE, server, Ubuntu, ufw, virtual machine, xen
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Today I’m posting about LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL & PHP) servers. I’m going to set one up with HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) on port 80, HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) on port 443, user directories that have access to both protocols, and SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) for those users. I’m doing [...]
By Krusty Ruffle
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Posted in Ubuntu
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Tagged apache2, firewall, FQDN, hostname, install, Linux, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, server, SFTP, Ubuntu, ufw, user directories, virtual machine, xen
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Okay, I’ve been working on this for two weeks now. It’s been a purely nightmare experience, apparently Debian has changed OpenLDAP so that it is now compiled against GNUTLS. This is for reasons of questionable licensing problems, or the possibility that there may be licensing problems between the GPL (General Public Licence), and the OpenSSL [...]
Alright! Today I’m posting about installing and configuring DHCP/DynamicDNS for a local network. This installation will be running inside of a Xen virtual machine, but should work on any server. I will not be doing the chroot environment for the DNS server on this one, if your interested in that you can read about it [...]