Connect to the internet
During the installation process you will need to download packages from the internet. Please make sure. that your box is conected via Ethernet cable and reveives an IP address over DHCP.
Download Ubuntu
- Download the Ubuntu Server 16.04 64-bit ISO.
- Make a bootable USB drive.
- Now boot from your USB drive. You probably will have to set this up in you BIOS.
Install the base system
Choose a language for the install process.
Press F4 and select “Install a minimal system” from the Modes menu.
Then select “Install Ubuntu Server with HWE kernel” from the main menu.
Language
Choose language timezone, locale keyboard layout to your liking. It won't have any real effect on your system. It’s just the language you will see in the console.
Hostname and user
Enter a hostname.
Name the default user “tooloop”.
Don't encrypt the home directory.
Partitions
Select “manual” paritioning.
Create partitions in the “Free space” on your harddrive following this scheme:
| # | Type | Size | Bootable | Filesystem | Mounting point | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | primary | 8.0 GB | B | ext4 | / | System |
| #5 | logical | 8.0 GB | swap | swap | Swap | |
| #6 | logical | 4.0 GB | ext4 | /home | Home | |
| #7 | logical | * GB | ext4 | /assets | Assets |
If your wondering about the small size of my assets drive in the screenshot – This is only because of the small virtual harddrive of my VirtualBox. On a real machine, it’s usually the biggest partition. It’s where all your media stuff goes.
Finish partitioning and write changes to disk.
Proxy
Leave this blank (unless you have an IT guy to tell you otherwise).
Auto updates
We don't want anything that’s not in our control.
Software selection
Select only “OpenSSH server”.
This way we can log into our box over SSH right after the first reboot.
GRUB
Yes to GRUB.
Reboot
Install Tooloop OS
After the base system was installed, log into your Tooloop box. You either do it on the machine or via SSH.
Now get the Tooloop OS files and run the installer:
sudo apt install -y git && git clone https://github.com/vollstock/Tooloop-OS.git && sudo Tooloop-OS/install-tooloop-os.shAfter some minutes the system will automatically reboot into you new and shiny Tooloop OS.
If your're curious what the installer does, check the install script.
Yay, you're done!
Enjoy the first steps on your new Tooloop Box.
