installing ubuntu 6.06 lts

[antidrugue]

About that quota thing, can you post the output of

cat /etc/fstab

And of

sudo fdisk -l

About connecting to your router with a static IP, something as simple a that should work :

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1

You should avoid using addresses in the DHCP server range (192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.200), as it might confuse your router.


One last thing, those instructions you use to setup a LAMP server :
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06

This guy "Falko Timme", mentions at the beginning of the installation :

Insert your Ubuntu install CD into your system and boot from it. Select Install to the hard disk - I did not try Install a LAMP server because I like to have full control over what gets installed to my system

I'm sure you like to have full control too, but that might not be the simplest way to do it. The option "Install a LAMP server" that you can see here would probably be more appropriate, and simpler.

[kinnth]

I appreciate that I dont understand it very well at all but im only young, 20 and my dad is trying to help me to get into linux as I feel that it might be what I want to do when im older. I appreciate all the help you have given me and that I might be asking you questions every step of the way, ill try to find out more myself using google and the like, but I want to do it the hard way and make mistakes along the way, so that I get a better understanding.

I read up on quotas, and I found out its to do with the allocation of disc space that a program / user is allowed so that the HD doesnt clog up, am I right?

from the code cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

and from sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4689 37664361 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4690 4865 1413720 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4690 4865 1413688+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

ill sort out the ip addresses when I have installed the rest of the server and let you know, I just want to get it up and running.