Ground Control

This is going to take a little while now, first we are going to setup the network and then set up the operating system completely for your location. As I'm a Sci Fi fan, I'm going to call the machine Andromeda and give it a fixed ip address of 192.168.1.254, my router is at 192.168.1.1.

So first of all click on the Configure Your Computer icon on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen.

Then type in your root password.

You should then see this screen.

Click on Network and Internet on the left hand side and then Setup a New Network Interface on the right hand side.

The EEE Box has wireless but I'm going to ignore, the wireless drivers are built into the distribution and the setup is easy. As this is going to be a server, let's setup the wired interface so select that and click next.

It's picked up the card so just click on next.

We're going to go for a manul configuration, so select that option and click on next.

Fill in the boxes with the details for your network.

Here's what mine looks like when filled in, once you've completed this screen click on next.

Leave this on the yes option and click on next.

The OS then starts up the network drivers with your settings and you should get a pop up on the bottom indicating it's completed succesfully.

Once it's done that click on finish.

You should then be back at this screen, you can close this down as we've finished with it for the moment.

Next we are going to set the OS up so that it works correctly for your geographic location, click on the Add Local option on ths screen.

Enter your root password.

The machine checks you are connected to the Internet.

You will then get this screen, just click on OK

And then you will get this dialogue box, it tells you to click on OK but you may notice that OK is spelt YES.

Select your contry from the list and click on OK

And it goes off on it's own downloading some stuff.

Just click OK here, no other option.

More downloading happens.

FOllowed by some installing.

And then you are asked to confirm the keyboard type, once you've done that click on OK.

And once again, click on the Yes button not OK as it says in the text.

You are then asked to confirm the settings.

Select your time zone.

Onc you've click on OK you will see this messagem if you clock on Yes you may notice that you then get the wrong time displayed. Don't worry about this at the moment.

Pop a tick in the box to enable Network Time Protocol.

Select a server near you and then click on OK.

And then OK on this screen and the machine will reboot.

Once it's back up and you've logged in again there's a little bit more confirmation of the settings to do.

At this point you can remove any surplus keyboard settings by clicking on them and on remove at the bottom.

Once you've doen all that click on Apply and then OK, you will then get this box up so click on OK again.

Just OK on this screen.

And that's it, it's all setup for your location now.