Ubuntu

Links

• http://ubuntu.com
• https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-apt-repository-in-ubuntu/

Installation

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Storage configuration

First create a boot partition!

Remember to umount cdrom before rebooting

Automatic install

• https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 autoinstall
• Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller
• Discourse - Please test autoinstalls for 20.04
• Cloudconfig examples

 

FAQ

Get ubuntu version

cat /etc/lsb-release
      

disable ipv6

sysctl:

net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

changing locale

/etc/default/locale

locale-gen

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

setupcon

loadkeys us

and lots more

 

 

mail: command not found

install heirloom-mailx

OR

install mailutils

REMEMBER: to fix sender domain

create /etc/mailutils.conf containing

address {
       email-domain yourdom.ain;
};

and check out

mail --config-help

failed unmounting /var

ignore it? it's a journald issue

multipathd[667]: sda: failed to get sgio uid: No such file or directory

Seems to be vmware setting: disk.EnableUUID = true

CHECK!

 

The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys  9D6D8F6BC857C906

Upgrade to 22.04 (impish Release no longer has a Release file)

That sucks, now what? Check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades

When apt-get update fails, set your repositories to old-releases.ubuntu.com

Upgrades to the development release are only available from the latest supported release

More obscure mess. Check https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-to-20-04-lts-focal-fossa