You're right, I do come from a Window background, and I'd rather start with being able to see the structure and be able to easily copy files to a safe location before I mess them up, and using a graphical text editor (hmm, sounds daft) rather than trying to get to grips with VI or similar.
My plan now is to reconfigure the router for a different IP to my existing windows network, it already has a domain controller etc on it. I'm thinking if I reinstall with just the very basics of the server options, but manually specify the IP and gateway then when it's done it should able to see the internet. I should then be able to use the sudo....... something command I have at home to download the GUI. >From there I can move on to set up the DHCP server and other network services, then move on to Samba etc afterwards. Seem logical? Once question, is there any clever way that I can acheive something like an image or mark point of the system as I make changes? I'm thinking that way if I get so far then screw it all up I can revert, to the last milestone and see if I can't make a mess of it in another and more interesting way? Tom On Jan 20, 12:36 pm, linuxonbute <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1. > > > I know that it is frowned upon to install a GUI on a server, but I > > > want to at least start with one and also this machine will actually be > > > used for very light usage by a computer novice, namely for streaming > > > music and maybe the occasional web search. I think I read somewhere > > > that if you install the GUI you might as well install the desktop > > > release, is this true? > > > Don't really know... > > > If it's just for nocritical home use, you could go with the desktop version. > > Also if you do install the desktop and use th GUI to start with you > may find it easier to set things up, especially coming ( I'm guessing > here ) from a Windows world. I think that one problem running a GUI on > a server is the RAM it hogs. But for light use it shouldn't be a > problem and you could, in any case set it up to boot without the GUI > starting up later if you wanted. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
