[brlug-general] Home file server help

[Joe Fruchey]

I have an old 500MHz Compaq POS that I want to use as a server for
samba, bittorrent, media streaming, etc. I was previously using this
PC as a samba-based NAS device using the NASLite boot floppy.

I have a long story to tell that involves multiple attempts at
installing Ubuntu Feisty Alternate-nogui, Dapper Server, back and
forth a few times, and finally Feisty Server. I'm not going to get
into the details.

Here's how the drives are/were partitioned (3-80GB drives):

hda1 - 100mb - ext2 - /boot
hda2 - 1gb - swap
hda3 - 78.9GB - lvm
hdc1 - 80gb - lvm
hdd1 - 80gb - lvm

/dev/vg0/lv0 - 20gb - ext3 - /
/dev/vg0/lv1 - 218.9GB - ext3 - /home

Now, the last time I installed (Feisty server), I chose "Guided
partitioning (LVM)" using only hda1 to see if that might fix
something. It did not.

The problem (guess I should mention that, huh?) is that right after
GRUB, I get "Starting up..." at the top of the screen, then a reboot.

At one point (I think with Dapper server) it was working okay. I never
got a login, but I could switch to a new console and log in just fine.

I've installed an OS on this computer six times in the past two weeks,
and I'm sick of it. Anybody got any ideas?

Joe