New User - Need Ubuntu Server Edition.

[Rapael Morcha]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:24:53PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 10:36 +0000, Peter Shanahan wrote:
> > Hello I am a NEW linux user and I have been trying to get a valid copy of
> > Ubuntu Server Edition to do a bit of home networking ( and learn
> > something from making my own mistakes )

[ Snipped some advice from Sridhar ]

> > however I have tried 4 times to 
> > download both versions of Ubuntu Server on the Web page and burn to disk
> > without ANY luck whatsoever. The install has failed to run until
> > completion each time stating a failure to load  X or Y package. I have
> > burnt these at the slowest speed possible to eliminate potential errors
> > and according to the download software they have arrived intact. If
> > anyone knows what I am doing wrong or if I can buy a working copy I would
> > be most pleased to hear from you. I am trying to set them up on an old
> > COMPAQ ML370 P III 500 with 1280MB RAM and 3 SCSI Disk with RAID 5.  
> > Thanks

If you are burning the ISO to CD, read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto. That might help you get started. Make sure you get the right Ubuntu desktop/server versionfor your processor (Piii would be i386 so get ubuntu-<version>-desktop-i386.iso from one of the local mirror).

[ some more snipping ]
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Cheers,
Raphael.