Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy heas reached its scheduled end of life and is no longer supported. Please choose a newer version of Ubuntu unless you are just wanting to see what Gutsy was like.

Pick the Right Release

For a complete list of the Debian and Ubuntu AMIs available in this series including AMIs in the European EC2 region, please see the following web page:

http://alestic.com

Selecting the correct Ubuntu AMI for your needs will improve your EC2 experience.

Description

This AMI is a clean, base install of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, built by Eric Hammond. This 32-bit AMI is for running on the 32-bit instance sizes including: m1.small, c1.medium . For the large and extra large instance sizes, please see the 64-bit Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy base install AMI

This AMI is ready to run or to install further software of your choosing and rebundle for a more advanced AMI. This is a base install with pretty much the packages that would be installed from an Ubuntu server CD base install (no web server, no database, no email server). Additional packages can easily be added using apt-get or aptitude.

Features

Features include:

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy with upgraded packages (as of 2009-04-18)

Amazon EC2 AMI tools (1.3-30748 20071010) installed and patched for Ubuntu

Uses Amazon's newer 2.6.21 kernel (2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen)

Includes 2.6.21 kernel modules

openssh-server installed

On first boot, runs instance user-data script if it starts with #!

Generate new ssh host keys on first boot and output fingerprints

ca-certificates installed to support SSL in ec2-bundle-upload

libc6-xen installed for performance

/etc/apt/sources.list for gutsy main restricted universe multiverse

/etc/event.d/tty[2-6] removed to avoid error messages in logs

Shadow passwords enabled

root password locked

ssh PasswordAuthentication disabled

10GB root (/) partition

Network: DHCP on eth0, loopback on lo, simple /etc/hosts with localhost

root ssh public key creditials retrieved from instance parameters or ephemeral store on startup (standard Amazon EC2 ssh access for public AMIs)

Added "UseDNS no" to /etc/ssh/sshd_config as recommended by http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2007-03-01/DeveloperGuide/public-ami-guidelines.html

Comment appended to /etc/motd

Locale en_US, Timezone UTC

Support

If you use or are thinking of using this AMI, please subscribe to the ec2ubuntu Google Group where you will find out about updates to the Ubuntu AMIs and tips for running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2.

To subscribe, send an email mesage to ec2ubuntu-subscribe@googlegroups.com

Support is also available through the above forum with a growing number of folks in the community using Ubuntu on EC2 (and a good core of folks willing to answer questions).

Build Process

Advanced users may consult the following page for information on how this AMI was built and to get instructions for building their own.

http://alestic.com

History

ami-ee48af87 - alestic/ubuntu-7.10-gutsy-base-20090418.manifest.xml

Disable ssh PasswordAuthentication by default to improve security

All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-62fe190b - alestic/ubuntu-7.10-gutsy-base-20090215.manifest.xml

All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-1f5db976 - alestic/ubuntu-7.10-gutsy-base-20081222.manifest.xml

Upgrade EC2 AMI tools to 1.3-30748 20071010 with support for European region eu-west-1

All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-5370943a - alestic/ubuntu-7.10-gutsy-base-20081130.manifest.xml

New --arch option from patch by Don Spaulding II

Upgrade EC2 AMI tools to 1.3-26357 20071010

The old 2.6.16 kernel modules are no longer bundled with the image.

All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-1fd73376 - alestic/ubuntu-7.10-gutsy-base-20080924.manifest.xml

bugfix: Mounts /mnt as ephemeral storage with /etc/fstab

All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-39d43050 - alestic/ubuntu-7.10-gutsy-base-20080922.manifest.xml

DEFECT: This AMI is missing /etc/fstab and does not mount /mnt as ephemeral storage!

bugfix: Only generate ssh host keys on first boot, not on every reboot.