tbresson
May 6th, 2005, 10:21 AM
I want to install Ubuntu on my server and delete the existing Windows which is on it right now, but.. I want everything to work the first time, and that's perhaps quite a bit to expect when your a newbie and when to run Linux.
As a precaution I decided to pull out one of my old P3 933 mhz Dell desktop machines and install linux distros on it like never before just to get the experience, and this is where I decided Ubuntu should be my distro of choice (yay! O:) )
Things are going okay as is, I have a few things I need the OS to do for me which I'm practising setting up, e.g. Samba, VNC etc. - later on I'll try with an FTP server too, but in general I'm hoping to replace Windows.
I'm writing here because there might be people out there who have done the same, want to do the same, or perhaps are planning on doing the same, and I might get some good ideas, hints og tricks by writing here.
This is the solution I'm hoping for:
- A fileserver (I have 2 IDE controllers, 1 on-board and 1 Promise TX2-100, and 6 IDE disks, and my client (other PC) is a WinXP PC).
- A GUI (I want to use my computer for web browsing (Firefox, of course ;-) and also for burning CDs/DVDs (I havn't even tried out any software yet and doesn't know what it's called
- A Remote administration possibility (I want to remote my machine if I have too, who doesn't? VNC was a obvious solution and I got it to work though I've seen better software on Windows, but then again not for free :P)
Problems:
I expect to fall into some problems with this, perhaps with the many disks and the IDE controllers, also I have to convert the filesystem on the disks fra NTFS (perhaps format) - which app is used for that?
Also I suspect that samba running on different disks might be an issue - anyone know about this? e.g. on Windows I have c: d: e: f: g: h: as IDE disks, but on my test machine I only have 1 disk (no room for more) - so I get "Filesystem" in the file browser. How does it look with more disks?
I might have forgotten a few things in here, since there's so much to consider before taking down a machine from the network and installing a different kind of OS on it. But I'm looking forward to it, and I hope by writing here others might get help too :grin:
So any helpful comments, suggestions or likewize are appreciated O:)
As a precaution I decided to pull out one of my old P3 933 mhz Dell desktop machines and install linux distros on it like never before just to get the experience, and this is where I decided Ubuntu should be my distro of choice (yay! O:) )
Things are going okay as is, I have a few things I need the OS to do for me which I'm practising setting up, e.g. Samba, VNC etc. - later on I'll try with an FTP server too, but in general I'm hoping to replace Windows.
I'm writing here because there might be people out there who have done the same, want to do the same, or perhaps are planning on doing the same, and I might get some good ideas, hints og tricks by writing here.
This is the solution I'm hoping for:
- A fileserver (I have 2 IDE controllers, 1 on-board and 1 Promise TX2-100, and 6 IDE disks, and my client (other PC) is a WinXP PC).
- A GUI (I want to use my computer for web browsing (Firefox, of course ;-) and also for burning CDs/DVDs (I havn't even tried out any software yet and doesn't know what it's called
- A Remote administration possibility (I want to remote my machine if I have too, who doesn't? VNC was a obvious solution and I got it to work though I've seen better software on Windows, but then again not for free :P)
Problems:
I expect to fall into some problems with this, perhaps with the many disks and the IDE controllers, also I have to convert the filesystem on the disks fra NTFS (perhaps format) - which app is used for that?
Also I suspect that samba running on different disks might be an issue - anyone know about this? e.g. on Windows I have c: d: e: f: g: h: as IDE disks, but on my test machine I only have 1 disk (no room for more) - so I get "Filesystem" in the file browser. How does it look with more disks?
I might have forgotten a few things in here, since there's so much to consider before taking down a machine from the network and installing a different kind of OS on it. But I'm looking forward to it, and I hope by writing here others might get help too :grin:
So any helpful comments, suggestions or likewize are appreciated O:)