Author: Lubos Rendek

Introduction

This guide will provide all necessary steps on how to create, bundle, upload, run and connect Debian ETCH AMI on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). For this guide we have used a Ubuntu 9.04. However, any other Linux distribution can also be used as long as it contains java and ruby packages. For more information about Amazon EC2 read  here.

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Prerequisites

• Internet connection
• registered user account for S3 and EC2 services with Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
• Amazaon Access Key ID
• Amazon Secret Access Key
• Amazon Account Number
• Amazon X.509 Certificate
• at least 1GB free hard drive space
• following packages need to be installed:

apt-get install ssh debootstrap ruby 
sun-java6-bin libopenssl-ruby curl 

Before we start

 As you will see in the next sections of this guide many different files are required to successfully use Amazon's EC2 Web Services. For the sake of simplicity, we will create a directory "aws" in ~/ and store all necessary files there for a quick access. There will be three exceptions:

This article explains basic commands for navigation within Linux file system. The diagram below represents (part of) a Linux file system know as Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. A line from one node to a node on its right indicates containment. For example, the student directory is contained within the home directory.

Introduction

This method of reseting/recovering of lost Linux root password should work on most of linux distributions. I have tested this method for couple years already, starting with debian woody trough redhat and suse to ubuntu hardy.

If you run lilo boot loader instead of grub you can use the same method but with some modifications on how to edit lilo boot prompt.

Edit Grub boot menu options

First you need to get into grub menu options. This menu is displayed right at the beginning of the boot. If you cannot see your grub menu options press "ESC' key.

You should get something similar to this:

Introduction

This article describes step by step setup of Linux software RAID 1 on Linux Platform. Although this software RAID 1 configuration has been accomplished on Debian ( Ubuntu ) it also can guide you if you are running some other Linux distributions such as RedHat, Fedora , Suse, PCLinux0S etc. For RAID-1 setup we need two or more disks. RAID1 mode creates a exact mirror of all data between two or more disks.

System Info

• OS: Debian Etch ( basic installation on /dev/sda)
• Kernel: Linux raid 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 00:47:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
• Hard Drives: /dev/sda -> 4GB , /dev/sdb -> 5GB

The Plan

We start with running linux system Debian Etch and the following partition scheme and hard drives ( sda , sdb ):