* Install Ubuntu. Only 11.10 has been tested. If you want to test other releases, let us know if or how they work. Aim is to move a soon as possible to 12.04LTS and stick with that one for a while.
* start a terminal
* Double check your network settings with '''<code>ifconfig</code>''' and '''<code>route -n</code>'''. These should be the settings that you use in the next step. If these are not correct you can change the ip address issue by issueing the command
{{Code|sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 up}}
assuming 192.168.1.14 is your IP address. The route can be changed with
(({{Code|sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1}}
assuming 192.168.1.1 is the address of your router.<br>
This is especially important if you are doing a headless install.