Preparation

• Server Image Installation
• Change the Default Shell
• Disable AppArmor And Apport

Server Image Installation

Server Image Installation

1. Browse to konsoleH and log in at Admin level
2. Select or search for your Self-Managed server in the Hosting Service tab
3. Select Linux Install under Recovery Tools from the left-hand menu
   
4. Select the distribution of the installation that you wish to activate
   
5. Select Activate on the top right-hand side
6. Reboot your server within 10 minutes via the RMM / IPMI device
7. During the server startup process, you have the option to reconfigure your RAID (TruServ Commerce only) via the RAID controller bios. 
8. The server will boot into the OS installation environment you selected in step 4
9. Follow the onscreen prompts to install your OS and configure your disks and partition layout
10. Once the install is complete your server will reboot into your installed OS and will be accessible
11. Access your server with the user(s) configured via SSH (some Linux distributions do not allow root logins by default over SSH).

 

Change the Default Shell

Change the Default Shell

/bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, however we need /bin/bash, not /bin/dash

To change do the following

1. Run the command below
   
   dpkg-reconfigure dash
   
   
2. At the prompt type
   
   No

Disable AppArmor And Apport

Disable AppArmor and Apport

Both AppArmor and Apport can can be safely disabled.  They cause more problems than solving them

Disable AppArmor

1. Run the below commands one after the other

service apparmor stop
update-rc.d -f apparmor remove
apt-get remove apparmor apparmor-utils

Disable Apport

1. Run the command below to disable Apport

systemctl disable apport.service