Debootstrap a Ubuntu Hardy DomU on a Debian Etch Xen Dom0

October 3, 2008 · in , ,

Lately, I wanted set up a Ubuntu Hardy DomU on an existing Debian Etch Dom0 box. Usually, setting up Debian-based DomUs is very simple with xen-create-image and debootstrap (there are tons of tutorials out there dealing with this topic), but unfortunately Etch’s version of debootstrap doesn’t support Ubuntu Hardy. I spent a surprisingly long time on searching the net until I found a solution for this problem on a french site: Installer et configurer Xen sur Debian 4.0 Etch (it’s a complete howto for Xen on Debian Etch, but it deals with the Hardy part too). The author created a backport of the debootstrap package, which enables you to debootstrap Hardy.

First, you have to create the hardy.d directory (symlink) for xen-tools.

$ cd /usr/lib/xen-tools
$ ln -s ubuntu.d hardy.d

There’s a debian repository holding the backport package, however I got problems to use that repository on an amd64 box, so I downloaded and installed the package manually.

$ wget http://falcon.landure.fr/pool/etch/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.10_all.deb
$ dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.10_all.deb

Now you should be able to debootstrap a Hardy DomU.

$ xen-create-image 
--hostname=hardy 
--ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
--size=5Gb 
--memory=256Mb 
--dist=hardy 
--mirror=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

Quick and dirty: set up a local PHP and Ruby development environment on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04)

July 21, 2008 · in , , ,

This is a quick and dirty tutorial how to set up a local development stack on a fresh Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) install.

Here is what we will install:

  • Apache 2.2
  • PHP 5 as apache module
  • Ruby 1.8 as apache module & Rails 2.0.2
  • MySQL 5
  • phpMyAdmin

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My Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 8.04 (aka pimp your desktop)

April 29, 2008 · in ,

Da ich mit Erscheinen der Final von Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) mein System nochmal komplett neu eingerichtet habe, schreibe ich hier mal eine kleine Zusammenfassung. Was heraus kommt ist ein System für Office, Entwicklung, Multimedia und alles andere, was man so machen will ;-) . Wie der Titel schon vermuten lässt, habe ich als Basis die “Perfect Desktop” Serie von HowtoForge genommen, in diesem Fall konkret The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron). In dem HowTo sind noch einige Sachen angeführt, die ich nicht verwendet habe, es lohnt sich also, da auch mal reinzuschauen.

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Medibuntu in Ubuntu 8.04

March 27, 2008 · in , 
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update