Steps for Linux post-installation tasks

Install Linux

First step is to install Linux. For Hyper-V VMs, 1024 MB of RAM is typically more than enough. Sometimes 512 will be plenty.

Set up the NAS

1. Install cifs-utils
   1. sudo apt-get update
   2. sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
2. Make directory /mnt/Storage
   1. sudo mkdir /mnt/Storage
3. Enter the below into /etc/fstab
   1. //10.10.10.20/Storage /mnt/Storage cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
4. Run sudo mount-a