Hello Theodos!

Hi!

Thank you for this article, it helped me on switching from Arch Linux ARM to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my Utilite home server. Few remarks and hints:

I am glad you found it useful :).

1) If you use the official Ubuntu 12.04 Linux Utilite Image, the bootstrap version is too old and you cannot update the system to Debian Jessie. If you have advice how to install newer version which support it would be nice.

It’s been a long time when I did this so not sure. I guess you could build a user space chroot jailed Ubuntu 14.04 under 12.04 and run debootstrap inside there. Obviously an overkill but a nice drill if you have the time to play.

2) Adding reposities for apt was a pain for newbie because you have to use vi editor instead something simpler like nano/pico. Google can help of course…

You can run this:

cat > /etc/apt/sources.list << EOF
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
EOF

3) After install the user account “utilite” was not functional (could not even log in with it), I’ve had to re-create it afterwards.

These commands didn’t work in the first place?

useradd -m -s /bin/bash utilite
passwd utilite

I did no have time to compile kernel my self -> I’ve just used the Arch Linux Arm kernel from the installation package and renamed it. At least server system which need only the network interface seems to work ok.

Kernels are generally independent from user space programs so I am not surprised :).

Thank you for this article, it helped me on switching from Arch Linux ARM to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my Utilite home server. Few remarks and hints:

1) If you use the official Ubuntu 12.04 Linux Utilite Image, the bootstrap version is too old and you cannot update the system to Debian Jessie. If you have advice how to install newer version which support it would be nice.

2) Adding reposities for apt was a pain for newbie because you have to use vi editor instead something simpler like nano/pico. Google can help of course…

3) After install the user account “utilite” was not functional (could not even log in with it), I’ve had to re-create it afterwards.

I did no have time to compile kernel my self -> I’ve just used the Arch Linux Arm kernel from the installation package and renamed it. At least server system which need only the network interface seems to work ok.