Install Day!

Right now I'm installing Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft).
My hardware is what is left over from my latest desktop build, most of the parts used to be in my old main desktop running windows XP.

These are the parts:
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.533 mhz)
motherboard with an Nvidia chipset
766 MB ram
2 hard drives:
40 GB (boot, swap, /)
80 GB (storage)
Nvidia GeForce MX 64 MB video card


Old used parts, yes, but I don't mind. I'm doing this on the cheap.

That's pretty much all that's on the agenda for today, put the damn thing together, install Ubuntu Linux, and update!

This is how I updated:
Open Synaptic package manager
System - Administration - Synaptic package manager
Put in password
go to Settings - Repositories
Make sure universe and Multiverse are checked
(this will enable you to get all the update goodies, including updates and programs that might have more restrictive licenses than the GPL)
Hit reload
Hit mark all upgrades and then apply

It might just be a habit left over from working with windows machines, and you certainly don't have to do it, but at this point I like to do a reboot.

That's it for day 1.

cool as fsck

This blog is going to be a journal of my trials and tribulations with installing and hosting a website.

I kind of sort of know what I am doing, if I'm going to be honest.
I've installed and run Linux before, but I'm by far not a guru. Hopefully, this will help someone else out. This time I am going to use Ubuntu, because it's user friendly, even if it isn't that old there is lots of help info on the web for it, and I really really prefer a Debian style package management system. I've used Red Hat/fedora (it was my first distro) and Mandrake before, but I prefer Debian/Ubuntu.
There are three reasons I'm doing this:
1. I want a record of what I do to the machine and when I do it (what works and doesn't work)
2. Maybe that information can help someone else out
3. I've always wanted to do a blog, but never really had anything to write about before

I'm also going to write about other miscellaneous things along the way. Hopefully, I can post at least a few times a week!