Step 0 was to setup the software.  I essentially just followed the motionEyeOS instructions found here:

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Installation

There is a specific version optimized for Raspberry Pi V1, which worked well.

I also tried to roll my own motionEye setup based on Raspbian.  This was more flexible, but now so stable.  Perhaps with a newer, multi-core Raspberry Pi, this would have been fine, but it was certainly problematic on my original 500 MB RAM v1 SBC. The basic steps were to setup Raspbian as normal, the follow the motionEye installation instructions found here:

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Install-On-Raspbian