Boxes like eeeBox or mini-pcs are quite good low-consumption servers, 
let's convert this Asus EEE Box on a tiny yet useful server running ubuntu.

As most of them do not have any CD/DVD player, installing ubuntu on such machines can be a little bit tricky, here is how I did.

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==== Needed material ====

  * 1 hour
  * 1 asus eee box
  * 1 other computer with cd reader/burner
  * 1 blank cd
  * 1 big usb stick or usb drive (at least 1 Go)
  * 1 ethernet cable + internet connection
  * 1 keyboard
  * 1 screen 
  * 1 hdmi cable + hdmi-dmi or hdmi-vga (about 15€)

==== Getting the files ready ====

  - Download [[http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download|ubuntu]]
  - reboot your computer and boot on the ubuntu cd (no install)
  - Download [[http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-server|ubuntu server edition]] (advanced options : 32bit version)
  - connect the usb stick
  - launch  usb-creator-gtk (see [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick|FromUSBStick]] tutorial)
  - make your stick a bootable install device selecting the ubuntu server edition iso that you have selected
  - shut up your computer

==== Getting preparing the eee box ====

  - your eee box must be connected to internet using ethernet cable (wifi configuration would be a waste of time)
  - connect it to a screen, you will need one for at least 15 minutes
==== Direct installation ====

  - boot the eee box pressing F8
  - configure your keyboard, etc.
  - install the server on the whole disk (do you really need Windoz Vispa® ?)
  - choose the standard LAMP installation
==== Getting ready for remote installation ====

You now should have a black screen with blank cursor, that's not the best way to work on a server. First things first, you need to install openssh-server to have a remote access to your flashy new server.

As it is just out-of-the-box, the repositories are not active, if you want to install a specific app like openssh-client, you might have this message : 
<code>Package openssh-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package openssh-server has no installation candidate</code>

To prevent this, first update the package repository list with
<code bash>sudo apt-get update</code>

Then install openssh-server
<code bash>sudo apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server</code>

That's cool, now you could connect externally to your server... but how ? Well, we just need the IP address.

Type ifconfig on the shell and you should have the answer.
<code bash>ifconfig</code>

On the eth0, the answer is : 192.168.0.20, could you find it ?
<code>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:8c:d4:92:cb  
          inet addr:192.168.0.20  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::224:8cff:fed4:92cb/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15431948 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:48473672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2274580057 (2.2 GB)  TX bytes:1886772788 (1.8 GB)
          Interrupt:27 Base address:0x4000 
</code>

==== Remote access ====

Depending on the kind of configuration your routeur has, this ip address may change when you reboot.

For now on, just take your laptop and type ssh gaspard@192.168.0.20 and get a remote access, you can unplug the keyboard and the screen if you wishes, we won't need them from now.
<code bash>ssh gaspard@192.168.0.20</code>

That's all folks !
  - <del>installing ubuntu server edition</del>
  - <del>choose LAMP preconf</del>
  - install and configure [[bonjour]]
  - install and configure [[proftpd]]