This guide is meant to serve as a comprehensive reference for setting up an Ubuntu slice. It was started by a fellow who started taking detailed notes after having hosed his slice multiple times. It won’t tell you how to do everything, but it should be enough to get most people started.

The guide is broken up into sections. Each is meant to be somewhat self-contained, although later sections may depend on the actions of previous sections.

This guide assumes you’re starting out with a brand new slice, loaded with Ubuntu (6.06 Dapper Drake edition). Hopefully you already know some command-line Linux and know how to operate an SSH client (like PuTTY). Your IP can be found in the SliceManager.

Finally, I pulled a lot of stuff from other guides in compiling this. Thanks to all the other developers out there for documenting your experiences! As a relative newcomer to VPS hosting, I can’t thank you enough.

helpful configuration instructions