Migration of Firewall/Server completed!! ** SUCCESS **

[Jay Ridgley]

Folks,

Since January I have been a pain, I will admit that...

I was totally frustrated in my efforts to upgrade my firewall/server. To make a 
long story short the one I was running was built on an OLD Dell OptiPlex G1 
using 8.04 and was needing to be upgraded. When I tried to do so I was told I 
was out of space. So I got a new system. Installed 10.04 and then the problems 
began. After several false starts, continued problems and swapping back and 
forth I traced the problem to an incompatibility with 10.04 and my Belkin 
Wireless G Range Extender/Access Point (or at least I think that was the problem 
- more later).

I solved my situation by installing 8.04.4 SERVER on the new system and got 
every thing configured and running without any problems. I am VERY HAPPY!

Now I am off to really learn how to administer the system using the command 
line. Back to school, it has been years since I did a great deal that type of 
work. Does anyone know of a good reference text/website for maintaining a system 
based on Ubuntu 8.04.4 SERVER?

I need to add a network printer using the command line and have a question that 
needs to be answered. What are the linux-image-server and linux-server packages? 
They show up when I do an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade but are not installed.

Thanks a bunch for not kicking me out...

As an aside, I really like ufw. It is very easy to configure and provides all 
the firewall support I need. I have 5 systems on my wired LAN and from 1-5 
systems on the wireless side, it supports them ALL. I strongly recommend it!

Cheers and THANKS
Jay
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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115
Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320