Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

Fri Apr 6 10:24:48 PDT 2018

I'm sorry to hear that you don't seem able to get Ubuntu to do what you want.

Myself, I am a Red Hat / CentOS family fan.
But SUSE and Ubuntu Server are other platforms that we support with BackupEDGE, so we're constantly installing test servers, in both BIOS and UEFI modes, and don't seem to have an issue with them. I guess we are just used to every Linux variant having its own warts.

There is certainly no such thing as "one" Linux.

Tom Podnar
Microlite Corporation

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From: "Fairlight via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 1:05:51 PM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

There's a single-line Ubuntu-as-server checklist:

1)  Slash wrists.

I recently installed Ubuntu Server 17 to do a baseline performance test
comparison against CentOS.  I had nothing but problems with the
-installation-.  I mean, if anything should go smoothly, it should be the
installer.

Nope.

First, it wouldn't write grub to the MBR.  Then, upon retries, it flaked
the network interface to a degree which appears to have corrupted the ARP
table entry for that IP#.  Then I got the networking back in the installer
when I moved to a different IP#, but grub wouldn't install at least seven
more times.  FINALLY I coaxed it into installing.

Then, once you have it installed, -nothing- is in a standard location.
Then entire absence of /etc/sysconfig/ (a long-standing location which
-both- SuSE and Red Hat have used for over a decade) is a massive red flag.

Between the politics of their organisation, and the obvious love and care
which went into their 'engineering', I would -almost- rather install
Windows Server 2012 than Ubuntu Server.  I hate it that much.  I -can- work
with it, but I -can- work with Windows Server, too.  That doesn't mean it's
a good fit.

As a desktop, fine...whatever.  Enjoy.  As a server?  Are you insane, or
just a masochist?

m->

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 12:06:21PM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Getting close to a weekend warrior project which includes:
> 
> 1. Backup SCO based filePro application
> 2. Install Ubuntu Server in PC/Server
> 3. Install filePro runtime/dev licenses in Ubuntu Server
> 4. Restore filePro application in Ubuntu Server
> 5. Run reasonable tests (1 or 2 lol) to make sure all is well and
> shell scripts/menus work as expected
> 
> Most if not all of my Linux experience has been with Ubuntu (love
> the community and simplicity of it all).  Never done filePro in one
> and I am hoping that I will not be forced to use SuSe or some other
> flavor (worst yet, RH).
> 
> If there is a "Check List" or a "How To" available to us out there,
> please point me in that direction ...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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