Excellent, thank you, and hey, I *almost* understood it all, tho being a *nix newbie with only some ancient experience with ibm and sco-unix all I know these days is debian.

I had *some* trouble making the debian cache and template, apt-get got me the debootstrap util.
Rebuilding the kernel I used stab077 instead of stab064, that all went fine

The ubuntu bit was kinda annoying when the attraction to the document was that it was all debian sarge, but I got over it ;)

Id like my contribution to be this little script i wrote to simplify making a new VPS from a template down to one command plus some bulk starting/stopping stuff .

If its not posted here, its cause 'it looked suspicous' to the forum/comments parsing code on here.

Cheers and thanks