Difference between revisions of "SUNScholar/Install Ubuntu/S01"

Revision as of 21:45, 8 October 2012

We use the LTS versions of Ubuntu for our servers. The server installation CD can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/iso-images/ubuntulinux/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.4-server-amd64.iso

Burn the above ISO image to a blank CD. Do not copy it as data, it MUST be burned as an ISO image!

If you have problems burning your own CD, then please ask your IT support people to help you.

Please read hardware upgrading to view the pro's and con's of virtualisation, if you are considering virtualisation.

At the moment we use a DELL R710 server. With the following specifications:

The following partition scheme is reccomended.

/	ROOT partition, where all the system software is installed	10GB Minimum - 20GB preferred
n/a	SWAP partition	2x installed RAM
/var	VAR partition, where all the log files and database files are installed	10GB Minimum - 20GB preferred. This depends on how big your database index files get.
/home	HOME partition, where all the DSpace software files and bitstreams are stored	All the rest of the total disk capacity.

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 We use the [http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/LTS LTS] versions of Ubuntu for our servers. The server installation CD can be downloaded from:
   ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/iso-images/ubuntulinux/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.4-server-amd64.iso
-Burn the above ISO image to a blank CD. Do not copy it as data, it '''MUST''' be burned as an ISO image !
+Burn the above ISO image to a blank CD. Do not copy it as data, it '''MUST''' be burned as an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image ISO image]!
 ''If you have problems burning your own CD, then please ask your IT support people to help you.''