
Then press ENTER to save it to the same file name. Within the nano environment, type ctrl + o to write the changes. This takes you to the interfaces config, which you’ll need to alter to reflect your IP schema. Change to a static IP address: root:/# nano /etc/network/interfaces Changing to the root user is optional, but if you decide not to do it, you will need to type “ sudo” before all of your commands.Ĥ. Log in with the username you created during the setup wizard and then type “ sudo su root” to change to root. When it asks you to specify how you’d like to partition the boot volume, make sure you specify “Guided with LVM.”ģ. Step through the initial Ubuntu configuration wizard. Download the Ubuntu 12.04 server ISO and create a new VM with it.Ģ. I’m assuming you’re familiar with setting up VMs, so these steps are somewhat vague, noting some caveats.ġ. As mentioned before, I’ll be going through setting up a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 server, with a second hard drive, as a VMware VM. I spent a bit of time creating an Ubuntu 12.04 FTP server and thought I’d share that experience in this post. I’ve been playing around with different ways of implementing FTP lately–that is, whether to use Windows, Linux, or just some sort of storage device with built-in FTP capabilities. Lauren Malhoit walks you through the steps for setting up a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 server with a second hard drive as a VMware virtual machine.

How to create an FTP server on an Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine
