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I condensed these commands so you can copy/paste AFTER you can SSH into your system, OR very carefully type out.
If you want to SSH to run the next set of commands:
If you're local, and not iKVM/remote with the system (you don't have the luxury of copy/paste), it might be easier if you SSH into the system from this point to run the next set of commands. Since this is a fresh blank Ubuntu installation, it won't have the network ports setup yet. You can run 'sudo apt-get install net-tools' to get IP on the network ports.
Step 7a - Grant root access for yourself for the next set of commands during this step
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