If you're just doing this for fun, then I'd recommend not even trying.
As I said in my other message, there is no longer a meaningful
difference between Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. The only difference
is in the set of packages that are installed by default.
But if you are doing this for career advancement, first of all, good for
you. I am at the University Of Wisconsin and there are Linux sys admin
positions that go unfilled for years. I don't know if it is like that
everywhere but around here, if you are a Linux sys admin, you won't be
unemployed for 5 minutes.
Anyway, if you are doing this for career advancement, you should look
into the Ubuntu auto-installer. I used to do this because I ran a
Beowulf research cluster. All the machines from the giant research
servers to the office desktops had to be running the same version of
Linux. But I can't think of any other reason to use Ubuntu on a server.
If I was running a database server or a file server, I'd just run Debian.
The way the Ubuntu auto-installer works is that at boot time, you tell
it where a text file is with all the answers to the config questions. I
actually haven't set this up for a long time but, IIRC, I would boot via
PXE and configure the PXE config file to point to what is called a
kickstart file. Of course, this means you have to configure a PXE boot
environment which is, in itself, non-trivial. All good stuff for a Linux
sys admin to know though. If you don't want to mess around with PXE
booting, you can remaster the Ubuntu installer ISO image instead. IMO,
that is just as difficult as setting up PXE and less useful in the long run.
One last thing, if you really want to figure this out, I can send you
sample files. Ubuntu totally revamped its auto-installer protocol right
when I stopped using Ubuntu Server probably 10 years ago. I had to throw
out all the stuff I had developed over the years and relearn how to do
an auto-install. Shortly after that, I stopped using Ubuntu Server at
all. I am sure I can still find the files though.
On 12/11/22 18:58, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
Hi Jookia,
I don't see how, unless I was doing a VM in a VM onto my Ubuntu Mate that is
a VM.
This is just running windows 10, with VmWare Player, and I have Ubuntu Mate
desktop and two versions of windows as VMs too, and I wanted to try
Ubuntu-server in a VM.
I don't know if VmWare can run an install script, sort of like the windows
answer file for a windows install.
There may be such a thing for Ubuntu, but the next thing is how to run it
during the VmWare install of Ubuntu-server.
Thanks.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jookia" <contact@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>
Cc: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu Server
Is there an install via SSH option?
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 05:45:24PM -0600, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
Hey Group,
I thought I'd test out Ubuntu server in a VM, using VmWare.
The first problem I noticed is that there is no way to call up speakup
because it is configuring a few things, like disk space to use and user
group and an account.
When I have installed Windows, I didn't have trouble with this because
VmWare took the information from the running windows system.
Actually, I'm not sure how one would install Ubuntu-server non-visually
outside a hypervisor.
I was using:
Ubuntu22.04 64 lite server
I might be able to get through the VmWare installer, I thought I had it
using the Be My Eyes app, but I couldn't tell if I was at a prompt, and
speaker-test produced nothing, and the soundcard was checked for the VM.
I also have Ubuntu Mate on the same computer in a VM, and sometimes I have
to enable the soundcard again to get Orca talking, but that didn't happen
here.
Just hoping someone has installed Ubuntu-server and gotten speakup to work
on first boot.
Glenn
