Installing

How to install ubuntu gutsy (or any other version) into /ubuntu (or any other directory) with debootstrap:

• apt-get install debootstrap, or run: http://proj.ri.mu/debootstrap.sh

• Bootstrap!

  • Ubuntu

    • debootstrap --arch i386 lucid /ubuntu http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/

    Debian

    • debootstrap --arch i386 squeeze /debian http://debian.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/debian

      • (Further Debian Instructions)

• chroot /ubuntu

• Type locale to see what your locale is, then run locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 to generate it.

• create an account for yourself (or install the user-setup package):

  • adduser <username>

  • add yourself to the admin (and audio) group(s):

    • usermod -G admin -a <username>

    • usermod -G audio -a <username>

• setup /etc/fstab
• mount /proc

• Now you can install the big bundles of packages.

  • Server packages:
    • ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard binutils linux-generic build-essential user-setup
  • Alternate kernels:
    • linux-rt linux-386
  • Desktop packages:
    • ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-{artwork,docs,keyring,sounds} linux-sound-base

Also note:

• For some reason, using the 386 kernel, this package didn't install by default (it's needed for audio drivers and other stuff):
  • linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-386

Apt-Get Performance Fix

See: apt-get performance fix

Useful packages

• python-setuptools (for easy_install)
• equivs (for making fake packages to satisfy dependencies)

Fixes

postgresql

This is needed in lucid to fix the encoding:

• pg_dropcluster --stop 8.4 main
• pg_createcluster --start -e UTF-8 8.4 main