Installing Ubuntu Server on Pollen v2.0
May 13, 05:06 AM
Here are some notes from my re-install of Pollen. I used Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server (which is supported until April 2013), MediaWiki 1.12.0 and Webmin 1.410.
Ubuntu Install
Language: English
Country or Terretory: New Zealand
Dectect Keyboard Layout: No
Origin Of Keyboard: USA
KeyBard Layout: USA
Hostname: pollen.botany.otago.ac.nz
Select Time Zone: Auckland
Partition Disks: Guided – use entire disk
Select Disk to Parition: SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) – 20.0GB ATA ST320414A
Write Changes To Disk: Yes
Installing the base system…
Full name for the new user: [NOT POSTED]
User name for your account: [NOT POSTED]
Choose a password for the new user: [NOT POSTED]
Confirm Pass…
Configure Package Manager: HTTP Proxy Information: [NONE]
Software Selection:
[ ] DNS server
[x] LAMP server
[ ] Mail server
[x] OpenSSH server
[ ] PostgreSQL database
[ ] Print server
[x] Samba File server
New Password for the MySQL “root” user: [NOT POSTED]
Confirm Pass…
Installation Complete: Continue
pollen.botany.otago.ac.nz login:
Ubuntu Install Complete
Testing / Updating Ubuntu
SSH Tested Locally (From My Mac on Uni Newtwork)
ssh [NOT POSTED]@pollen.botany.otago.ac.nz
Pass: [NOT POSTED]
Works Fine
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Tested: http://pollen.botany.otago.ac.nz/ from Mac
Works Fine
sudo reboot now (Not needed, just for fun)
Testing / Updating Ubuntu Complete
Installing WebMin
sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
Note: Webmin 1.410 is the latest version at the moment, but dosent seem to be in the Ubuntu Repositories by defualt. So we download manually:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.410_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.410_all.deb
sudo rm webmin_1.410_all.deb
Now visit:
https://pollen.botany.otago.ac.nz:10000/
Username: [NOT POSTED]
Password: [NOT POSTED]
Installing Webmin Complete
Setting Up Samba Share
Via Webmin:
Click “Servers”
Click “Samba Windows File Sharing”
Click “Create a new file share”
Share /var/www via Samba
Under the new “www” share, choose “Secturity and Access Control”
First option is “Writable?”. Choose “Yes”
Click “Save”
Click “Return To Share List”
Click “Restart Samba Servers”
Via SSH / Terminal:
sudo chown -R administrator /var/www
Testing Samba Share:
smb://pollen.botany.otago.ac.nz/www
Username: [NOT POSTED]
Pass: [NOT POSTED]
OK
Testing ability to write to /var/www
Works Fine
Setting Up Samba Share Complete
Pollen Ready For WIKI Install
This article is continued by MediaWiki on Pollen v2.0.
