installing ubuntu

Victor Padro vpadro at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 15:34:46 UTC 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan.koseoglu at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Steve Jones <sljones357 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > But will I get the benefit I'm seeking?  I have an old Sony
> > Vaio having 256MB, 20GB, P3 Mobile 1.0GHz, currently running Windows Home
> > Edition.  It's a pig and it's clamshell CD-ROM is busted.  I'm looking
> for a
> > light OS that will allow me to browse.
> I would recommend Xubuntu. I've had a couple of Toshiba Satellties
> with P3 1GHz CPUs lately and they all work quite satisfactorily with
> Xubuntu/Ubuntu (way faster than XP and all that freedom comes free :)
> ). They were not fast enough to handle KDE4 so Kubuntu is not
> recommended.
>
> > And apologies to the other responder.  I fired this off to the group
> before
> > turning around to Google my own question.  "here let me google that for
> you"
> > comes to mind...
> If you have an other Linux machine (or something you can run VMWare
> Server on) and if your Sony Vaio is network bootable (most of my
> (modernish) laptops are) you can boot it off via the network.
>
> I have some notes for 8.04 which are adaptable to any newer versions.
> Some of it is my own writing, some are bits and pieces I have found on
> the web.
>
> I don't have much time right now (need to get out of the house in 5
> mins!) but simply it can be summarised as such. I used the following
> to set up my Eee 701 with Ubuntu goodness:
>

I wonder what you can do if you have more than an hour to get out of your
house.
:-D


>
> Enable network booting from BIOS and move it above the rest.
>
> Install Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS or better on a VMWare machine.
>
> When the installation ends, login and load the updates and additional
> software required:
>
> sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo apt-get install tftpd-hpa dhcp3-server openbsd-inetd tftp-hpa
> Reboot
>
> Backup and replace /etc/dhcpd3/dhcpd.conf with the attached file.
> Backup and replace /etc/inetd.conf with the attached file.
>
> Download the correct netboot package:
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
>
> mkdir -p /tftpboot/32bit
> cd /tftpboot/32bit ; tar -zxf ~/netboot.tar.gz
>
> Boot the laptop once over the network. It won't. Note down the MAC address.
>
> Edit /etc/dhcpd3/dhcpd.conf and change the following for your env:
>  hardware ethernet 00:1E:8C:5C:7D:42;
>  fixed-address 192.168.1.100;
>  next-server 192.168.1.64;
>  filename "32bit/pxelinux.0";
>  option routers 192.168.1.254;
>  option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.254;
>
> replacing the hardware ethernet MAC with the Sony's MAC.
>
> Restart the dhcpd daemon. Make sure inetd is running, if not invoke the
> daemon.
>
> Reboot. Enjoy.
> Then it's a matter of spending a couple of hours while it downloads
> everything over the net and installs.
>
> Inet.conf sample:
>
> ---8<-------------------------------------
> tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
> ---8<-------------------------------------
>
> dhcpd.conf sample:
>
>
> ----8---------------------------------------------------
>
> #
> # Sample configuration file for ISC dhcpd for Debian
> #
> # Attention: If /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf exists, that will be used as
> # configuration file instead of this file.
> #
> # $Id: dhcpd.conf,v 1.1.1.1 2002/05/21 00:07:44 peloy Exp $
> #
>
> # The ddns-updates-style parameter controls whether or not the server will
> # attempt to do a DNS update when a lease is confirmed. We default to the
> # behavior of the version 2 packages ('none', since DHCP v2 didn't
> # have support for DDNS.)
> ddns-update-style none;
>
> # option definitions common to all supported networks...
> #option domain-name "example.org";
> #option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;
>
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
>
> # If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
> # network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
> #authoritative;
>
> # Use this to send dhcp log messages to a different log file (you also
> # have to hack syslog.conf to complete the redirection).
> log-facility local7;
>
> # No service will be given on this subnet, but declaring it helps the
> # DHCP server to understand the network topology.
>
> #subnet 10.152.187.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> #}
>
> # This is a very basic subnet declaration.
>
> #subnet 10.254.239.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
> #  range 10.254.239.10 10.254.239.20;
> #  option routers rtr-239-0-1.example.org, rtr-239-0-2.example.org;
> #}
>
> # This declaration allows BOOTP clients to get dynamic addresses,
> # which we don't really recommend.
>
> #subnet 10.254.239.32 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
> #  range dynamic-bootp 10.254.239.40 10.254.239.60;
> #  option broadcast-address 10.254.239.31;
> #  option routers rtr-239-32-1.example.org;
> #}
>
> # A slightly different configuration for an internal subnet.
> #subnet 10.5.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
> #  range 10.5.5.26 10.5.5.30;
> #  option domain-name-servers ns1.internal.example.org;
> #  option domain-name "internal.example.org";
> #  option routers 10.5.5.1;
> #  option broadcast-address 10.5.5.31;
> #  default-lease-time 600;
> #  max-lease-time 7200;
> #}
>
> # Hosts which require special configuration options can be listed in
> # host statements.   If no address is specified, the address will be
> # allocated dynamically (if possible), but the host-specific information
> # will still come from the host declaration.
>
> #host passacaglia {
> #  hardware ethernet 0:0:c0:5d:bd:95;
> #  filename "vmunix.passacaglia";
> #  server-name "toccata.fugue.com";
> #}
>
> # Fixed IP addresses can also be specified for hosts.   These addresses
> # should not also be listed as being available for dynamic assignment.
> # Hosts for which fixed IP addresses have been specified can boot using
> # BOOTP or DHCP.   Hosts for which no fixed address is specified can only
> # be booted with DHCP, unless there is an address range on the subnet
> # to which a BOOTP client is connected which has the dynamic-bootp flag
> # set.
> #host fantasia {
> #  hardware ethernet 08:00:07:26:c0:a5;
> #  fixed-address fantasia.fugue.com;
> #}
>
> # You can declare a class of clients and then do address allocation
> # based on that.   The example below shows a case where all clients
> # in a certain class get addresses on the 10.17.224/24 subnet, and all
> # other clients get addresses on the 10.0.29/24 subnet.
>
> #class "foo" {
> #  match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 4) = "SUNW";
> #}
>
> #shared-network 224-29 {
> #  subnet 10.17.224.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> #    option routers rtr-224.example.org;
> #  }
> #  subnet 10.0.29.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> #    option routers rtr-29.example.org;
> #  }
> #  pool {
> #    allow members of "foo";
> #    range 10.17.224.10 10.17.224.250;
> #  }
> #  pool {
> #    deny members of "foo";
> #    range 10.0.29.10 10.0.29.230;
> #  }
> #}
>
> authoritative;
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>       host terotestaa {
>               # 'ping target_host', 'arp' shows MAC address
>               # only give DHCP information to this computer:
>               hardware ethernet 00:0D:56:73:F0:0D;
>               # Basic DHCP info (see 'ifconfig', 'route', 'cat
> /etc/resolv.conf')
>               fixed-address 172.28.1.7;
>               option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;
>               option routers 172.28.1.254;
>               option domain-name-servers 172.28.1.67, 172.28.1.69;
>               # Non-essential DHCP options
>               option domain-name "tielab.helia.fi";
>       }
> host pxeinstall {
>  hardware ethernet 00:1E:8C:5C:7D:42;
>  fixed-address 192.168.1.100;
>  next-server 192.168.1.64;
>  filename "32bit/pxelinux.0";
>  option routers 192.168.1.254;
>  option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.254;
> }
>
> host foo  {
>  hardware ethernet 00:0C:29:61:01:A2;
>  fixed-address 192.168.1.101;
>  next-server 192.168.1.64;
>  filename "64bit/pxelinux.0";
>  option routers 192.168.1.254;
>  option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.254;
> }
>
> }
> ------8<--------------------------
>
> --
> Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org
>
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Well that's very GOOD advice!
Will take note on it!

cheers.

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