1. Clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
   1. Set for automatic install of security updates
   2. Services enabled:
      1. DNS
      2. OpenSSH
      3. Samba

1. Set the local network to static IP address
   1. Modify the /etc/network/interfaces file with a static entry:

      # The primary network interface
      auto eth0
      iface eth0 inet static
              address x.x.x.x
              netmask 255.255.255.0
              network x.x.x.x
              broadcast x.x.x.255
              gateway x.x.x.1
              # dns-* options are implemented by the resolv.conf package, if installed
              dns-nameservers x.x.x.1
              dns-search lattice.net

2. Restart the network:

   sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

The moment of truth. How hard would it be to configure a raidz array out of the five 2TB drives? Um, two lines!? These instructions came from here

1. Install the zfs code:

   sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse

2. Turn our hard drives into a raid array:

   sudo zpool create media -m /storage raidz /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf

Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP as shown here

NOTE: According to the comments on that page, you could do all of these with this: (but I'm not that lazy, I can copy and paste a few lines)

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

sudo aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client

sudo aptitude install apache2

1. Install php5

   sudo aptitude install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

2. Restart the apache server

   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• Found these instructions here
• Found some more stuff here (like how to add media)

1. Update your repository information

   sudo apt-get update

2. Install the server

   sudo apt-get install mediatomb

3. Check it out by going to http://YOURSERVER:49152
4. Modified settings in /etc/mediatomb/config.xml
   1. Altered the <name> tag to name our server
   2. Set this to “yes” to enable PS3 support: <protocolInfo extend=“yes”/>
   3. Add this to serve up avi and divx files:

      <map from="avi" to="video/x-divx"/>
      <map from="divx" to="video/x-divx"/>

1. Configure our samba server to share up some media

sudo apt-get install jed