Installing Ubuntu Server 16.04 under VirtualBox

Installation Environment:

Windows; Make sure you have enough disk space, typically 8 g or so.

Required Documents:
First download the. iso image file on the Ubuntu official website, link is: http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/server;
This installation selects the Ubuntu Server 16.04 version.
Then on the official website of VirtualBox download installs the virtual machine, may according to the computer system different choice suitable version installs, the link is: https://www.virtualbox.org; the version selected for this installation is the version of 5.1.2 under Windows.

Configuration steps for VirtualBox:
After downloading and installing the VirtualBox, you can use the virtual machine to install the image file. Here are the settings for each step of the installation:
1, open the VirtualBox, click the New button to create a regular virtual computer, and the next step;
Installation Environment:
Windows; Make sure you have enough disk space, typically 8 g or so.

Required Documents:
First download the. iso image file on the Ubuntu official website, link is: http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/server;
This installation selects the version of 16.04.
Then on the official website of VirtualBox download installs the virtual machine, may according to the computer system different choice suitable version installs, the link is: https://www.virtualbox.org; the version selected for this installation is the version of 5.1.2 under Windows.

Configuration steps for VirtualBox:
After downloading and installing the VirtualBox, you can use the virtual machine to install the image file. Here are the settings for each step of the installation:
1, open the VirtualBox, click the New button to create a regular virtual computer, and the next step;

2, fill in the relevant name, type and version as follows; Here you select the 32-bit version; then the next step;

3, set the virtual memory, here to choose the default on it, and then the next step;

4, create the virtual hard disk, select the default can be; then the next step;

5, virtual hard disk type: VHD is the format of Microsoft Virtual PC VM, VMDK is VM virtual machine format, VDI is virtual box format, here choose VDI;

6, create the virtual disk, you can choose to dynamically assign, and set the default 8G size;


7. Click the Start button and then add the image file that you downloaded from your computer:

The next step is to start the installation process:

1, choose the installation of the wizard language, the default is English, from here to start, you can not use the mouse, you may use the keyboard to complete the installation of the arrow keys;

2, choose the keyboard layout, you will be asked to press a few keys, the installer will try to detect your keyboard layout according to your keys;

3. Install the DHCP network Setup program to check your hardware and configure the DHCP network;

4. Start configuration:
Enter host name: Default Ubuntu;

5, create a user, user administrator user name Administrator, set user name and password, and Confirm password, password too simple time will also be asked to confirm again;

6, whether to need to encrypt the private directory, so I choose yes here;

7, if the installation program detects that your time zone is correct, select "Yes", otherwise "NO";

8. Now start partitioning the disk. For the sake of simplicity, I chose to boot-use the entire disk and set up the LVM-which will create 2 logical volumes for one volume group/file system and another for Exchange 1 (of course, the partition is entirely up to you-if you know what you are doing, you can also manually set up your partition);

9. Select the disk you want to partition:

10. Write to change disk and configure LVM, select Yes;

11. Configuring LVM:
If you choose to boot-use the entire disk and set up an LVM partition, you will create a large volume group that uses disk space. You can now specify how much disk space should be used for logical volumes/interchanges. It makes sense to leave some space behind so that you can later expand your existing logical volumes or create new ones-which gives you more flexibility;

12. When you are finished, select Yes to write the change settings to disk

13. Next, HTTP settings; select default;

14. Configuration:
Can choose whether to update according to personal preference;

15. Select Install Software:
I choose to install the OpenSSH server here, so that I can immediately connect to the SSH client, also need to install standard system utilities, this importance can refer to the following link:
Http://askubuntu.com/questions/766419/whats-in-standard-system-utilities-w-16-04-server
Later we can also manually install the required packages;
Note here to use the space bar to select, do not directly enter;

16, continue to install:

17. The Grub boot loader is installed:

18. Grub Installation:
When asked to install the Grub boot loader master boot record? Select Yes;

19, Installation Completed:
In this step, the system is basically installed;

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