Better late than never, this post has sat in draft for a nearly three months. I had a laptop running Ubuntu acting as a proxy server to filter all the kids’ internet traffic and decided back in February that it was getting a bit long in the tooth. It was a Compaq M700 laptop, with a 400MHz processor, 384MB RAM and an 8GB hard disc. A long time since it had been state of the art! The last straw came when I couldn’t upgrade the operating system to the latest version as I didn’t have enough disc space. The old laptop provided several functions for me, so these would have to migrated to the replacement machine.
A few days later, I bought a Dell D610 laptop (Celeron 2.0GHz, 40GB hard disc) off Ebay and some additional memory to take it to 2GB.
I had downloaded Ubuntu Server 10.10 about the same time and burnt the ISO to CD, however when I came to use it I found the image was incomplete, so had to download it again. Second time lucky.
The notes below are for me as an aid for future rebuilds, but may help someone else with their configuration.
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