installing ubuntu 6.06 lts

[kinnth]

ok I might have bitten off more than I can chew as I am not a coder and have very little experience with coding.

I am following this walkthru 2 set up a lamp server

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06_p3

I am stuck on number 5.configure the network

I get a readout saying

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

How do I edit to the ip address and mask shown in the walkthrough?

[antidrugue]

Just open any text editor and enter those values (mentionned in the how-to you pointed out) :

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Instead of "nano", you can use "pico", "vim", etc.

[kinnth]

I am starting to understand some of the commands I read this

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uvi.htm

And managed to edit the file correctly. I am now stuck on the part where I have to type

hostname
hostname -f

How do I place both of these commands on two lines in the shell, or do I run hostname first press ENTER and then type hostname -f

[antidrugue]

do I run hostname first press ENTER and then type hostname -f

Yup, that's it.

Here is a little tutorial on how to use the command line :
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

[kinnth]

ok cool im getting there!

I managed to get my computer to have the address

ubuntu.example.com

1 step in the right direction

I would quite like to use putty now are there any good tutorials on how to use that, I am quite confused as to all the options.

If I want to connect on my local network what details should I supply, as when I enter the ip address 192.168.0.100 and change no settings it does not connect, what settings should I use?

[kinnth]

ok im going insane! far too much computering today I think, I left the ubuntu boot disc in and it booted before it started linux.

I have removed the boot disc restarted and managed to get in with putty

top bannana!

[antidrugue]

Not sure I understand your last post. So everything works now?

[phantomreaper]

Im stuck on this problem too

[kinnth]

Well now I have a new problem its the apt update command, the linux machine cannot connect to the internet. So I did some step backs and got it to obtain ip address automatically and the updates downloaded.

My question is this

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1

This is the standard that the walkthrough provided and I am almost sure that is exactly what my router provides, however I am unsure about the network line, dont know what that means?

ive provided a screen shot of my router config, was wondering if someone could help to make my ubuntu server static at 192.168.0.100 but still be able to connect to the internet.

[kinnth]

ok now I am a bit confused about what the quota is. I

quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //quota.user was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings...
quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile //quota.group was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings...
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] done
quotacheck: Checked 1753 directories and 24039 files

This was what the quota chck returned however, I wrote into the quota fstab file /dev/sda1 should I change this to /dev/hda1 as this was what the quota check returned? What does the the fstab file hold?