SUNScholar/Install Ubuntu/S01
NEXT - STEP 2 - BEFORE UBUNTU INSTALLATION
Step 1. Requirements
Server Guide
Click on the following link to download the Ubuntu 14.04 server guide.
File:2014-ubuntu-server-guide.pdf
Hardware
- Notes about disk space requirements
If you can, try to get estimates of the number of research articles published and the number of masters and doctorates published by your institution.
For each "born digital" item budget approx 2MB storage and for print items digitised approx 15MB.
If your archive is going to host research data and OER items then double your disk usage calculation.
If your server should run out of disk space, then simply add more storage. See link below for help.
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Upgrading/Hardware/Add_a_New_Disk
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:
- 2x Intel E5650 64 bit = 12 real CPU's and 24 virtual CPU's
- 12GB 1333Hz RAM
- 400GB RAID5 disk array using 10K RPM disks
- 4x 100MB Ethernet ports
Software
- We use the LTS versions of Ubuntu for our servers.
- Please click here to find out why Ubuntu was selected as the server operating system platform.
Download and burn one of ISO images 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.
The server installation CD can be downloaded from:
- PLEASE NOTE: DSpace versions =>4.X require Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!
ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/iso-images/ubuntulinux/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso
ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/iso-images/ubuntulinux/12.04/ubuntu-12.04-server-amd64.iso
