Installation steps:

• Install Ubuntu:
  • Recommended partitioning: > 15GB Linux partition using ext3 mounted on /
  • Swap partition of 4GB +
  • Data partition using ext3 with the remainder
  • Primary user named lciuser with the usual password
• Once ubuntu install completes, add some users:
  • Edit /etc/adduser.conf
    • Uncomment EXTRA_GROUPS related variables so new users have access to dialout etc
    • Recommended: add the group admin to the list of EXTRA_GROUPS
  • Add users as desired with "adduser "
• Install some basic tools:
  • sudo apt-get install openssh-server
• Run the basic ros install:
  • http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation

-- DavidMeger - 01 Oct 2009

• Adding "admin" to EXTRA_GROUPS did not appear to work in my case. If so, you can simply log in as lciuser and use the System->Administration->Users & Groups control panel to add your other users to the admin group, allowing use of sudo.

-- MattBaumann - 01 Oct 2009