Note, this is a WhiteBox setup so not all parts are officially supported by VMWare. Specs below… i7 2600K Gigabyte P67A-UD4 B3 8GB DDR3-1866hz 9-9-9 1TB Samsung F3 drives Intel Gigabit Network card Now, the issue here is that after a clean install of VMWare Sphere 5, boot-up would take at least 5-9 min to [...]

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Advance Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) or APM ( Advance Power Management ) support for Ubuntu 10.04 was not installed by default after server installation.  I needed this so that during power outage I can just press the power button to automatically shutdown the PC. sudo aptitude install acpi acpi-support apm This will install the [...]

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82579 based Ethernet network cards are only supported in Kernel 2.6.36 and up, thus Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will not have out-of-the-box support for the network card. I needed this to work since I’ll be using this as my server and 11.04 is not LTS, I have no choice. To fix this with the motherboard I have from [...]

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These are the steps I took to install Jakarta Tomkat 5.5 in conjunction with Java 2 SDK in Ubuntu server. Login as root, you can also use “su” though I prefer to login as root. apt-get install sun-java5-jdk This will install Java 2 SDK (1.5), ubuntu will start downloading packages that are not found in [...]

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