Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Base Install (ami-42cde536)

I was able to use this image and install java and tomcat and have my web app up and running in minutes.

Thanks

An excellent and usefull script, thank you.
We adapted it to build a 32 bit Ubuntu 6.06 LTS AMI. The only thing we had problems with was the size limit of sda1. We had to resize the image to 2048 MByte, since otherwise we could start the machine, but could not access it. The one time we got the terminal output we saw this error:
"(...)
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=4184, limit=2048
JBD: IO error reading journal superblock
EXT3-fs: error loading journal.
EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=4144, limit=2048
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=4144, limit=2048
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=4144, limit=2048
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=4144, limit=2048
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=4144, limit=2048
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."
Then the machine rebooted, and again, and again...
After resizing the AMI to 2048 MB, everything worked fine.

Eric, thanks for not only making the image itself available, but for providing such clear instructions for the roll-your-own installation. I'm always a little nervous about booting other people's AMIs, but I dearly love ubuntu as a server platform :-)

Additional discussion about Ubuntu on EC2 is available in this Google Group:

  http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu

--
Eric Hammond
http://www.anvilon.com

Thanks for taking the time to update the image to the latest! It runs like a champ ;-).

Bruce

Eric,

Great work. Thank you. I used it as the base for my AMI.

http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/

Best regards,

-- Rajiv Pant
New York, NY

This Ubuntu AMI has saved us a lot of work and we really appreciate it. Thanks.

The script requires a minor correction to work with the current Ubuntu archive. "BSVER=debootstrap_1.0.7" should be changed to "BSVER=debootstrap_1.0.8".

I am SOOO glad somebody took the reigns and did this. Fedora Core just isn't as good as Ubuntu (IMHO). It would be nice if Ubuntu built AMIs themselves, but this will do, and I'm really glad this happened.

I used this AMI to install Apache, MySQL, ColdFusion 8 Enterprise, FFMPEG and Mencoder after I had difficulty finding working repositories on Amazon's default LAMP stack AMI (Fedora 4). Everything on Ubuntu worked like a charm, including the TightVNC remote desktop.

The only thing I noticed is that on a small instance type the amount of default "root" hard drive space gets taken up pretty quick once you install the basic stack I mention above. You'll have to move things into /mnt/ if you were going to put it into production (or onto S3), or upgrade your instance. I am actually ready to test the 64-bit platform since ColdFusion 8.1 (still in beta at the time I write this) now supports 64-bit everything. I have to say ColdFusion Enterprise, despite the fact that it costs money, has built in clustering and failover which makes it very exciting to test against the scalability inherent to EC2.

Wow!

It took me only minutes to:
1. Upload this AMI to the cloud and ssh into it
2. Use aptitude to install Postgres, Django, and Beautifulsoup
3. scp my app files to the instance and run the app
4. See my app live in Firefox (i.e., deployed...)

I had no problems at all and everything went smoothly!
Working the instance shell felt just like home...

If you use Ubuntu don't think twice. This AMI seems to just do the job.

Very nice, minimal install.

Is exactly what it purports to be. Easy to upgrade packages as needed, just like a regular ubuntu on your own box.

Thanks!

Works for me. I'm using this as a basis of our Ubuntu system deployment. Thanks for sharing your hard work!

Once I figured out *how* to get any image running, I was able to get an instance of this running in about 15 minutes.

This is just the thing I've been looking for.

This AMI works perfectly and gives the easiest head-start for running an Ubuntu instance at EC2, and the build script is an added bonus. (Thanks.)

Updated Review:
This AMI works amazingly well. (I had some troubles to connect to it by SSH in the first time, but it was a problem in my own network) In my experience, it's booting faster and is smaller than the FC4 one. Great job, Eric! Thanks!


Original Review:
Hi Eric! First of all, thanks for making this AMI public. Ubuntu is great. :) I'm having some troubles to get the 32-bit AMI working. It's booting fine (as I can see with ec2-get-console-output command) but I cant ping/connect it. I'm using the ami-e2df3a8b version. If I boot the standard FC4 one with the same settings, everything works fine. If you want, I can send the boot sequence by email to you. Thanks! Marcos

The script for this is great. I came across it trying to solve the problem of not being able to connect to a rebundled Gutsy AMI but it's helped me build a much better AMI. Publishing the script is a real help too as it's let me step through the bundling process and learn a lot more about it and how to customize it.

thanks!

I really like this AMI, because, I was able to very quickly install Java, apache
and other things I needed, without the hassles of looking up RPMs (as in Fedora).

Being able to just download and automatically install things with apt-get is a huge
boost in productivity, and getting all the "admin" tasks out of the way, so that
you can concentrate on your BUSINESS software.

Thanks, Alex.