Newbie - Install on Ubuntu server without GUI

My Graphics Card
http://www.ebuyer.com/272721-xfx-hd-6450...-645x-znh2

My PC
http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-proliant-mi...tAodbScAIw

Argh, I'm still a little confused. I am assuming at this point I can get away with ubuntu server installed without a GUI but I would like confirmation before I do it please. Thank you!

You can get away without a GUI and dont need one to install/configure and run both Ubuntu server and xbmc.

Refer to my first reply on how to install xbmc onto the server, if that radeon card it should all work just fine.

uNi

I think I was getting a bit confused by your use of ' GUI', because XBMC when running is also a graphical user interface. In linux the correct terminology for what you meant would be 'desktop manager', which runs on top of the X system which (simply said) provides the fucntionality to draw stuff

You do not need to have a desktop manager installed to run XBMC, but you do need X.
It is possible to use a ' light' desktop manager, so you can still start a webbrowser if needed. (XBMCbuntu uses LightDM for this reason)

uNiversal has a very complete script for setting up a machine without desktop manager, booting straight into XBMC.
If you want a lightDM setup, check the wiki on how to manually install xbmc under linux which will explain how to do that.

Nope you may be still confused, for reference the solutions is what I said on my first reply in this thread (post #3) (alsonot my script) or wsnipex thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996 only difference on both threads is this guy wants Ubuntu server installed as a base.

Anything else with ATI/AMD GPU setups is just asking for head aches and more confusion..

Now if th OP wants XBMC running without a GUI that's a whole different road.

uNi