I ripped all my music in ogg vorbis, when hard drives were smaller and more expensive. Now I'd like to have it in FLAC: at least the classical and jazz. I'm planning to run ethernet cable under the floorboards and connect raspberry pi with audio cards to two stereos, and use the PS3 in the main room...

Certainly no offence taken. Thank you. This whole exercise is meant to be educational as well as practical, so that's a help. I seem to have got it now, with the help of your earlier reply. I can log in to my server with putty and have just created and mounted partitions with webmin, but I can't get...

It's worked!!! Ya beauty!!!

Thanks again.

I'll post updates as I progress. I'm moving on to virtualisation now.

Thanks, Ian. The DHCP page of the advanced settings in my router gives a Start IP and an end IP value. Is that the range? I chose 256 because it was outside that range. Start IP is 192.168.1.2 and end IP is 192.168.1.254. So, I should open the config file on my server, and change the address to 192....

Hi, I'm new here. The best guide I've found so far. I got much further than I thought I would before hitting a snag. Problem posted. I've bought an old TranquilPC server box from a friend and am trying to get it up and running. Ubuntu's on, and was doing okay; we'll see how it goes. I've been runnin...

Hi all, The walkthrough is amazing. I started with it this morning and everything was going swimmingly-Ubuntu on server, putty, VNC and webmin all up and running, blood pressure normal :clap: , and then I went for a bit of lunch, and when I got back, I think I got cocky. :-( I was following the sect...