Today we are going to setup a new Virtual Machine to run Ubuntu Server LTS in Mac OS using Oracle’s VirtualBox, (http://www.virtualbox.org) virtualization software. Begin by clicking on Machine>New… Enter the name for your new VM and select the Type and Version that you will be installing. Click continue. Select the amount of RAM your…
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Update: I’ve created a new post here for installing Webmin 1.620 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 13.04 Server. This same process works with Ubuntu 13.04 Server. Assuming your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server installation is up-to-date, use wget to download the webmin debian package: (1.610 is the latest at the time of this post). nmino@ubuntu12:~$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb…
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Today I have an internal Dell RD1000 drive for backup services with 1TB removable cartridges. Here is my process for getting the device up under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server and running the first backup. Get the partition table of your device, (this particular device was located @ /dev/sda): nmino@localhost:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda:…
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These are the steps I take to install Webmin on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Servers that I deploy. (Also works on 10.10 Server and Desktop) Download the Webmin package: nmino@ubuntu:~$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb –2013-01-07 09:04:11– http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found Location: http://superb-dca3.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb [following] –2013-01-07 09:04:11– http://superb-dca3.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb…
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I just migrated a client from a peer-to-peer Windows network to an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS/SaMBa file-server. Moving the data was the simplest, yet most time-consuming part of the project. Time consuming in that this client has several hundred GB of data to be copied. My first step was to mount the Windows share in the…
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