[Opensim-users] Request: OS 0.7.3.1 Config Using Ubuntu "Mini" 11.10?

[Nebadon Izumi]

I think Ubuntu server would be more appropriate for that

http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/download

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Len W. Brown <len at lenwbrown.com> wrote:

> **
>
> That is correct  .  Though you are presented with many different options
> during installation.  For example, you can choose to configure it as a mail
> server, or a myth headless media server, or a core LAMP server - which can
> end up giving you a complete installation that is only 100 or so megs.
>
> This is my thought in using this.  The standard distro of Ubuntu includes,
> aside from the desktop environment, various games, utilities, additional
> applications, etc.  So, for an OpenSim server, I would not be interested in
> it having a desktop environment, or having Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice
> or LibreOffice, or any games on there.  That is what makes this install
> method enticing to me for an opensim configuration since I can explicitly
> choose what I need and nothing else is installed.  It's probably as close
>  to Gentoo as Ubuntu will ever get when it comes to selective choice.
>
> I used this distro recently to create a streaming media server (Tomcat &
> Subsonic) that I can connect to using my Android phone.  The entire
> installation is 183 megs, not including the music I have on it that I
> stream.
>
>
>
> On 04/01/2012 02:34, Nebadon Izumi wrote:
>
> I am pretty sure using this Minimal CD installation and setup is exactly
> the same as using the full CD/DVD set for installing Ubuntu, here is a
> quote from the link you gave
>
> "The Minimal CD will download packages from online archives at
> installation time instead of providing them on the install CD itself."
>
> the only difference is it downloads the files from a public repository
> such as mirrors.kernel.org or something similar instead of installing
> them from the DVD media, otherwise its pretty much 100% identical as
> installing from the full Ubuntu DVD.
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Len W. Brown <len at lenwbrown.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi everyone!
>>
>> A short time back I ran across a very nice way to install Ubuntu.  I've
>> seen some "mini" versions floating around, but this one should be referred
>> to as "micro" actually.
>>
>> It's around 23 megs (the ISO) and it initializes networking and disk
>> preparation.  Then you decide exactly what you want to include (such as
>> LAMP, Kubuntu, Media Server, etc) and it downloads the most current
>> versions of applications needed and installs them automagically so your
>> Ubuntu box only has exactly what you need and none of the optional "fluff".
>>
>> Although I have no issues whatsoever setting up Apache, MySQL and OpenSim
>> on my Windows 7 machine, I would REALLY like to set everything up on a
>> dedicated Ubuntu machine - most preferably a lean and mean virtual machine.
>>
>> I've had no issues installing any flavor/combo of Ubuntu using this mini
>> installer on VMWare, but I'm still unsure about the next step - installing
>> and configuring Mono and OpenSim, etc.
>>
>> I thought maybe (hopefully) one of you wonderful people might investigate
>> Ubuntu Mini and possibly write up a "quick and dirty" barebones
>> installation guideline for Ubuntu 11.10 & OpenSim 0.7.3.1 (preferably on a
>> VMWare virtual machine).
>>
>> Here's where you can download the mini (micro) Ubuntu iso:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration.  I have a static IP here at home that I've
>> assigned to a domain name and I've ran my own OpenSim server for a couple
>> years on a Windows XP and more recently a Windows 7 virtual machine.  I'd
>> like to break free of that and use the slimmest possible configuration of
>> Ubuntu instead.
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your time and consideration.
>>
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