Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

This section describes the necessary steps to perform the installation of Ubuntu 18.04

Installation

Please find below a step by step guide on how to install Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS with screenshots at every step.

Choose your desired language. Please use English in case troubleshooting is required.

Please select your Country, we used United Kingdom

We had a UK keyboard layout and selected No for this question

Keyboard Layout English (UK) in our case, but feel free to select what suits your configuration best

Confirming Keyboard Layout English (UK)

We used "ubuntu" as a hostname but feel free to change it

Username for the account

Full name of the account

Password

Re-enter Password

Confirm or select time zone

Use the entire disk and set up LVM

select your desired drive

Click on Yes to save the changes to disk

Leave the default value. The entire disk will be used

Select <Yes> to confirm the changes

We just used Continue without any proxy serve, but this is where you'd enter your proxy details

We prefer to update the box manually so "No automatic updates"

Press SPACE while highlighting "OpenSSH server" to select it and then ENTER to continue.

Select <Yes> for GRUB to install on the master boot record

We're done! Select Continue to reboot the system

This is how it looks after first login

Check if SSH Service running

If you've followed the Installation from above the SSH server should already be enabled.

You can double check if the ssh server is running by executing "systemctl status ssh"

IP address

Run "ifconfig" to get the IP address of the network interface.

SSH Connection

Please continue to the SSH Connection session to find out on how to connect to your node remotely.