Blank Pad Development

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I’m Jon, and over the past 6 years I’ve been involved in the development of web applications big and small. Whether you want a full e-commerce solution, an application to streamline your business processes, or a business idea turned into a reality, I can use some of that experience to help you.

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Installing an Ubuntu 10.04 Server Under VirtualBox

Posted under Sysadmin on June 22nd 2010

When installing Ubuntu 10.04 Server as a VirtualBox VM, don’t use the “Install Minimal Virtual Machine” option in the installer options.

Strangely, that causes installing it as a VM to fail spectacularly, with the boot loader failing to find any hard disks. A standard install seems to work fine.