Various installations for Week 5

My installations went really well. Installing a gui desktop in my Ubuntu server went perfectly. I pinged a known host and it worked. I installed the desktop. I connected to the internet and when I typed in the URL http://localhost/, a window opened saying "It Works!" I was really happy.

I installed Ubuntu Desktop in a virtual machine by following the YouTube videos. They made it really easy. When I checked the disk, it said I had no errors. That was great, because whenever I copied the ISO image to a disk it came up with errors.

I installed Webmin and it was a piece of cake! These installations went really well for me, which makes up for all of my struggling with the Ubuntu Desktop boot disk. It's really easy when you have step by step instructions.

Installing Ubuntu Server in VMware Workstation

This went a lot better for me that Ubuntu Desktop. I followed the YouTube video instructions and it was pretty easy. In the beginning it mentioned something about the VM Workstation clocking my CPU speed to be so many MHz but Windows reports that it is a different number of Mhz and this will make the clock lag or something. I should have written it down. I clicked ok and then I got another message saying that it couldn't connect to a virtual device floppy and asked if I wanted it to attempt to connect to this drive every time I powered on, and I said no. After that, every thing went smoothly. I chose to install the LAMP and OpenSSH servers. I then tried out some commands at the end wehen it rebooted and I logged on for the first time. From my home directory, if I enter "ls", I only get one file (named "megan" - my username). I wonder if this is right.