2009 - Dell Optiplex 760

The 2004 Server suffered a power supply failure; because it is a custom build (not out of standard parts) getting a new power supply and make it reliable was going to be painful, so we replaced the server with a Dell Optiplex 760, with a 5 Year Service agreement. We have:

• Service Tag 95D8Ck1 (Express Tag 19915596433)

ordered by Matt Lindblad.

This log records every (good) step followed to copy the old server into the new one, using a new installation.

Hardware Specs

• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E7400 (2.80GHz, 3M, 1066MHz FSB)
• 4GB DDR2 Non-ECC SDRAM,800MHz, (2 DIMM)
• Integrated Video, Intel® GMA 4500
• 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s
• 16X DVD+/-RW SATA, Data Only
• 88% Efficient Power Supply
• 5 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 5 Year NBD Onsite Service

Operating System

• Ubuntu Server 9.04 64bit [1]
• Burned to ubuntu-9.04-server-amd64.iso CD
• Changed boot sequence to CD-ROM, then HDD (disabled Floppy boot)
• Default USA English / keyboard layout
• DHCP failed (expected): temporarily using orellana.mit.edu while being configured (manual network config)

Disk Partitions

• Setup using "Guided - entire disk and setup LVM"
• Select Disk: SCSI1 (sda) 320.1GB ATA (only available)
• Only one partition (sda)
• Maximum size

Users (during setup)

• Created user mitna first
• Same password as on /mit/alvarso/sailing.mit.edu/ information files
• No encryption

Misc

• No proxy
• No automatic updates

Apps

• LAMP Server
  • MySQL root pass same as previous
• OpenSSH server