Making boot media

  • Download ISO

  • Use Etcher to burn ISO to a USB stick.

Gotchas

  • Don’t install graphics drivers with the Ubutnu 22.04 installer, it breaks with i915 chip.

Expand volume to fill drive

Annoyingly, Ubuntu 22.04 server at install will leave most of a large drive unused. To fix this, following these instructions.

Additional drives

If you have additional hard drives, you will probably want to mount these at boot time. You do this by editing /etc/fstab. Instructions here. Broken link: these instructions are now password-protected (September 2026).

Boot failure