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How to install a Debian 9 (Stretch) Minimal Server

This tutorial shows how to install a Debian 9 (Stretch) minimal server. The
This tutorial exists for these OS versions
purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal Debian setup that can be
used as the basis for our other Debian 9 tutorials and the perfect server
Debian 9 (Stretch)
guides here at howtoforge.com.
Debian 8 (Jessie)
Debian 7 (Wheezy)

1 Requirements On this page

1 Requirements
To install a Debian 9 server system you will need the following: 2 Preliminary Note
3 The Debian Base System
the Debian Stretch network installation CD, available here:
32Bit: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-

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 9.3.0-i386-netinst.iso (i386) or
64Bit: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso (x86_64 / amd64)
a fast Internet connection.

I will use the 64Bit installation media here.

2 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial, I will use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.1.100 and the gateway 192.168.1.1. These
settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.

3 The Debian Base System

Insert your Debian 9 (Stretch) network installation CD into your system and boot from it. When you use a virtualization software like VMware or
Virtualbox, then select the Debian 9 minimal iso file as source file for the DVD drive of the VM, you don't have to burn it to a CD or DVD for that
first.

Select Install (this will start the text installer - if you prefer a graphical installer, select Graphical install):

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 Select your language:

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 Then choose your location:

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 Choose a keyboard layout:

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 The installer checks the installation CD, your hardware and configures the network with DHCP if there is a DHCP server in the network:

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 Enter the hostname. In this example, my system is called server1.example.com, so I enter server1:

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 Enter your domain name. In this example, this is example.com:

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 Afterward, give the root user a password:

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 Confirm that password to avoid typos:

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 Create a Linux user account, e.g. your name or nickname. For this example installation, I will choose the name "administrator" with the
user name administrator (don't use the user name admin as it is a reserved name on Debian Linux):

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 Now select the timezone for the server

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 Now you have to partition your hard disk. For simplicity's sake I select Guided - use entire disk - this will create a large partition for the
/ file system and another one for swap (of course, the partitioning is totally up to you - if you know what you're doing, you can also set up your
partitions manually). For hosting systems like the ISPConfig 3 perfect server tutorials you might want to choose e.g. 30GB for / and a large /var
partition as all website and email data is stored in subdirectories of /var.

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 Select the disk that you want to partition:

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 Then select the partitioning scheme. As mentioned before, I select All files in one partition (recommended for new users) for
simplicity's sake - it's up to your likings what you choose here:

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 When you're finished, select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk:

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 Select Yes when you're asked: "Write changes to disk?":

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 Afterward, your new partitions are created and formatted. Now the base system is installed:

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From: calbasi at: 2017-07-11 15:08:59 Reply

In a fresh debian install I get:

/etc/hosts
---------------------------------
127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.1.1 debian# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-
loopbackff02::1 ip6-allnodesff02::2 ip6-allrouters-----------------------------------
And /etc/hosname with just my machine/domain name:
myserver.mydomain.net
----------------------------------------------------
I wonder if these settings are OK, and, thus, your manual has an (old) alternative.

From: Someone at: 2017-07-24 11:32:11 Reply

Update links from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0

From: thctlo at: 2017-07-26 07:30:41 Reply

Hai, Just tried your vm for a samba 4 install, but that errors at some point due to the existance of Administrator as linux users. deleting your
default administrator user fixes the problem.

but great howto again.

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 Thanks!

From: AnHa at: 2017-07-27 10:04:55 Reply

When I try to install debian9.1.0 amd64 on my VMWare-System 8.0.2, the base system installation failes with error:"Debootstrap waring: Failure
trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.43_amd64.deb". Trying to ignore does not
help, I can't go on with installation.
Having a look @ /var/log/syslog, I see something like "dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (--install): subprocess installed post-
installation script was killed by signal (Segmentation fault)"
Any suggestions?

From: AnHa at: 2017-07-27 12:36:31 Reply

After updating the VMWare-Version everything works fine

From: Adam at: 2017-09-10 02:45:30 Reply

would it be possible to create one of these perfect server setups that has been tested and oriented towards Google Cloud Compute Instances?
There is some of this that is simply not going to be doable...beginning with the very first part of this. Trying to start with a blank canvas is a little
difficult when Google Cloud instances have disks with O/S's already on them when the instance is first setup.

From: till at: 2017-09-10 09:21:13 Reply

An OS instance at Google is a minimal setup, so the perfect server setups work perfectly on cloud servers as well.

From: Vincent at: 2017-10-29 17:41:09 Reply

I have a 404 on the debian 9 64 bit link...

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Author: Till Brehm

Last updated: Jan 22, 2018
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