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Below is information about specific customisations I have made to default key bindings etc.

• i3 Window Manager
• zsh Shell

Things I had to do manually

Format, partition and mount second hardrive

Ubuntu is installed on an M.2 drive. The second SATA hardrive was unformatted. "Disks" (gnome-disks) kept crashing, so I used gparted to partition the HD as ext4.

• To find its UUID and mountpoint I used sudo blkid.
• Create a directory to use as a mount point; sudo mkdir /data.
• Manually mount, as a test, with sudo mount /dev/sda1 /data.
• Then chown -R kris:kris /data so I could read/write files without being root.
• This worked so I added an entry to /etc/fstab so the disk was automatically mounted at boot.

UUID=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX /data            ext4    defaults              0       0

I also moved some directories from home to the second drive and symlinked them back.

mv VirtualBox \ VMS /data
mv Downloads /data
ln -s /data/VirtualBox\ VMs ~/VirtualBox\ VMs
ln -s /data/Downloads ~/Downloads

Set the MySQL root password

• sudo service mysql stop
• sudo nvim /ect/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
  • add skip-grant-tables
• sudo service mysql start
• mysql
  • flush privileges;
  • use mysql;
  • update user set authentication_string=PASSWORD("") where User='root';
  • update user set plugin="mysql_native_password"; # THIS LINE
  • grant all privileges on . to root@localhost;
  • flush privileges;

VirtualBox

Getting Virtualbox to work took some extra steps, firstly Virtualbox requires kernel modules to be installed, which due to secure boot in ubuntu 16.04 required the modules to be manually signed first. Secondly I had to enable "Intel Virtualization Technology" within the BIOS.

I downloaded some Microsoft Virtual Machines to test Internet Explorer.