Installing Hardy Server - Part I

Let's go ahead and power on the virtual machine, make sure to have your Ubuntu Server disk in your disk drive. www.ubuntu.com

Click "Power on this Virtual Machine".







If all goes well, you will boot to the installation CD and see this.

Select the language that you prefer.



Now, you should see this.

Lets go ahead and select, Install Ubuntu Server.

Again, choose the language you need and press enter.

And again, press enter.



Choose the keyboard layout that you would like. You should see the system detecting devices. Eventually, it will come to this screen.

Here you can name the machine. This can be changed later, and can also be overridden by DNS changes on your network, however, try to make it as accurate as possible. Click Continue. Select your time zone and hit enter.

Here, select the type of partition you would like to set up. The default is Guided, which is fine for most scenarios. however, I am going to select LVM, which makes resizing the partition easier if need in the future. Hit enter when you have made your selection.

Verify everything is correct, and hit enter.

You will receive a final warning that the changes are giong to be made to the disk. You have to select YES and hit enter. The select YES again, and hit enter. You should now see the installation process begin.

Durring the installation process, there will be several questions.

I will name the default user administrator, and the password can be whatever you would like. If this server will be used for a production environment, make sure your password is secure!

You will be asked if your environment uses a proxy. In most cases, you can just select next by pressing enter.

Here, you can select what software you would like to install by default. I will be using SSH to administer the server, so I am selecting OpenSSH server. While we do want a LAMP setup, I prefer to select the packages myself, to have finer control of what is on the system, so for now, select continue, and we will install the other components later.



That's it, your installation is complete. In the next document, we will configure the server, and install some needed packages.