How to Install Install Moodle on Ubuntu

On the command line, type:
cd /var/www
sudo wget http://download.moodle.org/stable19/moodle-latest-19.tgz
sudo tar -zxf moodle-latest-19.tgz
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in ubuntu 8.04 it should be:
sudo tar zxf moodle-latest-19.tgz
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sudo mkdir /var/moodledata
sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /var/moodledata


We now need to edit the location of the default web site. On lines five and ten, replace /var/www/ with /var/www/moodle/. Restart Apache.


sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart


Configure Moodle website
ifconfig (look for your server’s ip address on the 2nd line)
On another computer open a web browser and put in your server address
Complete the Moodle install using a secure username and password
Go to a bar for a few hours.
Come back and tell your boss that you FINALLY got the test server running.

Install Ununtu with OX X (Mac) Triple Boot With Xp

Installing Ubuntu alongside
OS X (Dual Boot, no rEFIt)

The site from where the idea was taken talked about installing Ubuntu on a
MacBook Air but it made sense and the installation seemed very easy and
straight forward. After trying the suggestion, it worked fine. The installation
was made on a system with OS X Leopard already installed and up to date.
Because of the nature of the installation, I think it could work on all MacBook
models and on all MacBook Pro models with Leopard installed.
So, here are the steps:
1. Boot into OS X Leopard

2. Use BootCamp to partition the drive, the size depends on your
needs but 10GB should be fine, 9 for the ext3 partition and 1
for the swap one. (There is a manual on how to use BootCamp
to install Windows, the steps are very similar except the
Windows install part, so if you need to know how to partition
the drive with BootCamp, this is a good resource: http://
manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup.pdf)

3. Restart the computer with Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop CD inserted
(64-bit or 32-bit version), just when the computer starts keep
pressed the C key (that's for booting from the CD). Stop
pressing the key when the screen goes black. ~-(Strange
behavior I got: Holding the key for too long made the keyboard
and mousepad unresponsive)

4. Boot Into the live CD, Click on 'Install' icon on the desktop.
Select the appropriate language, select 'Keyboard Layout' as
'Macintosh', select 'Manual' partitioning, then 'Forward'.

5. BootCamp will have created '/dev/sda3' which should be
roughly the size of the partition you created. Write down the
exact size of the partition and the size of the free space made
by BootCamp because using this space left for your partitions
"could harm" MacBook's partition table. Select 'dev/sda3' and
delete it by clicking 'Delete Partition'. This should now be 'free
space'. (Note: IF someone can verify that using the free space left by
BootCamp doesn't matter, please edit this part)

6. Select the 'free space' and click 'New Partition'. Set the size of
the partition in wich Ubuntu will be installed leaving the free
space for the swap partition if needed plus the free space that
you wrote down before. Set the formatting to occur at the end.
Format it as an 'ext3' type partition and set the 'Mount Point' to
'/'. Click OK. (Note: After finishing partitioning, the free space left by
BootCamp should be the same)

7. Select the free space and click 'New Partition'. Format it as a
'swap' type partition and select the size needed. Set the
formatting to occur at the end. Click OK. (Note: After finishing
partitioning, the free space left by BootCamp should be the same)

8. Now click 'Forward'.

9. Set your user settings and click 'Forward'. Click 'OK', and
'Install'.

10. When installation is complete, reboot.
Important: When using this method, Ubuntu will not be selected by
default on boot. Nor it will be selectable by default; that means that
if you don't press anything, the computer will boot on OS X Leopard.
To be able to select wich system to use at boot, just after the
system starts, keep pressed the Option (Alt) key, then, two images
will appear, representing both OS' installed; select the one you need
to use. The image called Windows is Ubuntu, a small price for an
easy install.
For more information on installing specific components, take a look
at the menu on top of the page.

Installing Ubuntu alongside OS X (Dual
Boot)
Note: This is for a MacBook Pro with OS X already installed

1. Install the rEFIt Boot Menu from (http://refit.sf.net).

2. Use BootCamp to partition the drive (if using Tiger, don't
bother burning a Windows boot CD; if using Leopard, it won't
ask you).

3. Restart the computer with Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop CD inserted
(64-bit or 32-bit version). rEFIT should recognize the CD and
give you option to "boot Linux from CD". Scroll to this option
using the down arrow or click on it with your mouse.

4. Boot Into the live CD, Click on 'Install' icon on the desktop.
Select the appropriate language, select 'Keyboard Layout' as
'Macintosh', select 'Manual' partitioning, then 'Forward'.

5. BootCamp will have created '/dev/sda3' which should be
roughly the size of the partition you created. Select 'dev/sda3'
and delete it by clicking 'Delete Partition'. This should now be
'free space'.

6. Select the 'free space' and click 'New Partition'. Set the size to
approximately 1 GB less than the total amount of free space.
Format it as an 'ext3' type partition and set the 'Mount Point' to
'/'. Set the formatting to occur at the beginning. Click OK.

7. This should leave approximately 1 GB of free space. Select this
free space and click 'New Partition'. Format it as a 'swap' type
partition. Set the formatting to occur at the beginning. Click
OK.

8. Now click 'Forward'. This will give some scary warnings about
FAT 32 not being partitioned correctly. Click 'Ignore' and
proceed with the install. After being prompted for a user and
computer name, check to make sure that the formatting is
occurring at partitions #3 and #4 and click 'Install'.

9. Set your user settings and click 'Forward'. Before installing,
click on 'Advanced' and change '(hd0)' to '(hd0,3)' . Click 'OK',
and 'Install'.

10. When installation is complete, reboot into Ubuntu Linux OS. Go
to 'System' > 'Administration' > 'Software Sources'. In the
'Third-Party Software' tab, check them. In the 'Updates' tab,
check 'Pre-releases Updates' and 'Unsupported Updates'. Click
'Close' and 'Reload'.

11. Go to 'System' > 'Administration' > 'Update Manager' hit
'Check', 'Install Updates' and restart.

12. Read the following Video section for choosing which video
driver to use.
To adjust Fans speed in OS X install: http://homepage.mac.com/
holtmann/eidac/software/smcfancontrol2/index.html
To access Linux partition in OS X see: http://fuz2y.blogspot.com/
2008/04/how-to-mount-ext3-partition-on-os-x.html

How to Install Ubuntu OS X & Windows Vista (Triple Boot)
Note: This is for a MacBook Pro with OS X & Windows Vista allready
installed

1. Install the rEFIt Boot Menu from (http://refit.sf.net).
Also to access Linux partition in Vista install 'Ext2 IFS': http://
www.fs-driver.org/download.html
And to access OS X partition in Vista install 'Mac Drive': http://
www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
To ajust Fans speed in Vista install "inputremapper" before the
leopard dvd drivers: http://www.olofsson.info/index.html?
inputremapper.html
To ajust Fans speed in OS X install: http://homepage.mac.com/
holtmann/eidac/software/smcfancontrol2/index.html
To access Linux partition in OS X see: http://fuz2y.blogspot.com/
2008/04/how-to-mount-ext3-partition-on-os-x.html

Ubuntu Installation (Triple Boot - Vista)
1. Startup your laptop with Ubuntu Desktop CD inserted into the
drive.

2. In rEFIt menu, choose to boot the Ubuntu CD.

3. Select English as the language to be used.

3. Select the 2nd option, the one that says : "Install Ubuntu"

4. After the loading, on the install screen, select the O.S. Language
(English) and hit "Forward" button, then select your country location.

5. On the Keyboard layout, choose your keyboard language, and on
the other window select the variant Macintosh (mine is Portugal -
Macintosh), and test the typing if you want.

6. On the "Prepare Disk Space" menu, select the 1st option: "Guided
- Resize SCSI3 (0,1,0), Partition #3 (sda) and use Free Space", and
with your mouse select the desired partition size (I set mine to 80%
Windows Vista & 20% Ubuntu), and hit "Forward" button.

8. On "Migrate Documents and Settings" menu, just hit "Forward".

9. On "Ready to Install" menu, select "Advanced..." and select to
install Grub boot loader to the last partition "/dev/sda4" and hit
"OK" button, and then hit "Install" button to begin the installation
process.

10. After the installation as finished, hit "Restart Now" button, it will
exit the installer and eject your CDROM, then press "Enter" key to
restart. After the reboot, select the Linux icon on rEFIt to boot into
Ubuntu.

11. Don't forget not to install the ATI accelerated graphics drivers,
that is auto-detected by Hardware Drivers application, we'll cover
the installation of the latest and official ATI drivers on the next
section.

6. Go to 'System' > 'Administration' > 'Software Sources' and check
all boxes on the "Third party software", and also on the "Updates"
tab. Then hit "Close" button to reload the sources.

7. Go to 'System' > 'Administration' > 'Update Manager' and check
and install the new updates.
Preparing to Install Ubuntu alongside OS
X & Windows XP (Triple Boot)

1 - Make sure you use Leopard and have it updated (10.5.2).

2 - Start BootCamp and create a partition for Windows XP (15G is
enough).

3 - Don't install it through Bootcamp.

4 - Insert Windows CD and reboot holding C when you hear the
beeping sound.

5 - Windows installation should start, follow the usual installation
process of Windows.

6 - If it reboots during installation, you press ALT during reboot so
that you can pick Windows installation.

7 - After Windows is installed, insert your Leopard DVD and it
should install all your Apple drivers and stuff.

8 - Update your Apple Software (there will be an option on the start
menu to do so).

9 - Update Windows XP.

Ubuntu Installation (Triple Boot - XP)
1 - Now that Windows is installed, get back to MacOS, we are going
to install Linux now.

2 - Start Disk Utility and create a new partition on Machintosh HD,
name it Linux

3 - Insert Linux CD and reboot holding C

4 - On Linux installation, delete the partition you created (Linux)
because its HFS, and set it as ext3 and mount /. Don't need to
create swap (I know its going to warn you, but ignore it).

5 - At the last step of setup, click advanced because you need to
change where GRUB is going to be installed, choose sdaX (which X is
your Linux partition).

6 - Let it install Ubuntu.

7 - Get back to MacOS, install rEFIt, reboot and run the partition
manager of rEFIt, which should take care of every detail of booting
for each OS.

8 - Reboot and that's it.

How to Dual boot Ubuntu with XP

Dual boot Ubuntu 7.04 with XP  (Ubuntu 7.04 already installed)

Install Windows XP

 Once the CD has loaded, press Enter to install Windows XP, then F8 to accept the license agreement.  When the partition screen loads, you can see that Windows Setup can see the two existing Ubuntu partitions and has interestingly assigned them drive letters (even though it can't read them.)

 The space we’ve just created is also there, so select that and hit Enter.

 Because the primary active partition (/dev/hda1) has been marked as bootable, Windows can’t be installed until this partition has been marked inactive so that the new partition can take over. This is pretty much the same as installing Windows Vista. Hit Enter to make this change and then format the new partition.

Unfortunately because XP detected the two Ubuntu partitions and assigned them drive letters, the new partition which Windows is going to be installed on will be assigned drive letter F:, which is definitely a non-standard drive letter for Windows.

However, it’s not that much of a problem – at least as far as Windows and therefore most other intelligent applications go.

It could be a problem for older apps which don’t look to the Windows settings and make assumptions about where they can install themselves (for example, apps that are hard coded to install to Drive C).

Reboot the system once Windows is installed and you’ll see that it boots straight into XP. Ubuntu’s GRUB bootloader in the MBR (Master Boot Record) has been overwritten, so Ubuntu isn’t bootable at this point in time.

There are ways to make the Ubuntu partition bootable while still using XP’s bootloader in the MBR. However this is fiddly and involves using FAT32 partitions, as FAT32 is readable by both XP and Ubuntu. Wherever possible I avoid using FAT32 – it’s nowhere near as optimised as NTFS, and you lose out on all the enhanced security and permissions features.

Reinstating GRUB as the system bootloader is a much better alternative – it handles pretty much any operating system you care to throw at it, and it’s very easy to administer.

Reinstall GRUB to the MBR 

The next step is to reinstate GRUB as the system bootloader. Boot the system using the Ubuntu Live CD. 

Go into the GNOME Partition Editor and you can see that the Windows XP Partition is detected as /dev/hda2 and has been marked as the boot partition.It can actually stay as the boot partition, but as we’re going to reinstall GRUB it makes sense to change this – it doesn’t adversely effect XP.

 Right-click the Windows partition and select Manage Flags.
 Untick “boot” and select Close.
Then right-click the primary Ubuntu partition (/dev/hda1), select Manage Flags and tick “boot”, then Close. Done.

GParted - Manage FlagsGParted - Manage Flags 

GParted - Mark BootableGParted - Mark Bootable

Now to reinstall GRUB. Open up Terminal (Applications, Accessories, Terminal) and type in:

 sudo grub

 GRUB - sudo grub 

This will launch the GRUB application. Now type in: 

find /boot/grub/stage1 

GRUB - find grub 

This will search for where GRUB has been installed, and you should get the result hd(0,0).

 Change the active root to this location by typing in: 

root (hd0,0)

Now we’re going to reinstall GRUB to the MBR rather than the Ubuntu partition. 

If we were going to use the Windows XP bootloader then we’d reinstall GRUB to hd(0,0), but as we’re not, type in: 

setup (hd0) 

GRUB - reinstall grub to MBR 

This restores GRUB to the MBR. Type in QUIT and then EXIT to get out of GRUB and Terminal respectively, then reboot the system. Ubuntu will load by default. 

Modify the Boot Menu 

What we need to do now is modify the GRUB boot menu to allow Windows XP to load. Boot the system into Ubuntu and go to Terminal. Type in: 

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst 

GRUB - MENU.LST 

This loads the GRUB menu file (which is basically a text file) within GEdit. 

Navigate down to the section which after “## ## End Default Options ##". 

These are the individual menu items in the GRUB menu. 

Ubuntu & XP - GRUB MenuUbuntu & XP - GRUB Menu 

To create a new entry, navigate down to the end of the list (although it can go anywhere really) and enter the following lines: 

title Windows XP 

root (hd0,1) 

makeactivechainloader +1 

GRUB - Windows XP boot option

This places an item in the boot menu to launch Windows XP from its own partition (hd0,1). 

If you like, scroll up to the top of MENU.LST and find the line called TIMEOUT. 

The numerical value assigned to TIMEOUT dictates how long you’ve got to go into the boot menu (in seconds) before the default boot item loads. 

When configuring a dual-/multi-boot system I find it better to increase this value. 

GRUB - timeout

Just above TIMEOUT is DEFAULT. This specifies which boot entry is the default. 

The numbering system starts at 0 and counts upwards, so the DEFAULT = 0 means that Ubuntu is always the default entry. 

If you want Windows XP to be the default, replace the value. 

GRUB - default 

Save MENU.LST and exit from GEdit, then restart the system.

Hit ESC when prompted to bring up the boot menu, and there’s the newly-created Windows XP entry. 

Navigate to this boot item and hit Enter – Windows XP will load. 

Uninstalling Windows XP 

If you decide after a while that this dualbooting situation is no good and you wish to scrap Windows XP, it’s actually very easy. 

Go through the process outlined above to modify the MENU.LST and remove the Windows boot entry. 

Then boot off the Ubuntu Live CD and go into GNOME Partition Editor. Right-click the Windows partition (/dev/hda2) and select Delete. 

GParted - Delete Partition 

Then right-click the main Ubuntu partition (/dev/hda1) and select Resize/Move. 

Drag the edge of the partition to reclaim the space you’ve just freed up by deleting the Windows XP partition and click Resize.

There will now be two actions waiting in the Operations window. Hit Apply and these changes are made. 

GParted - Remove Windows XP 

This take your system right back to the start before Windows was installed, and is actually quite a graceful exit from the dualboot scenario.