Hi,
Ok its been a long time since i've done anything with linux so i'm going to act as if I've never installed it before. I'm a complete noob! Here is what i'm trying to accomplish and need suggestions.
I'm wanting to run a web servers to host a website which will have a forum of some kind for the users. This will probably require support for PHP, MySQL, and i guess Apache for the web server part. Also i'll probably setup an IRC bot on it to moderate a chat channel and maybe even run my own ircd for users to come and chat from my website. I'm downloading CD1 now and plan on doing a minimal installation from it because i don't feel like downloading all 4 cd's. (fedora 2)
What suggestions does anyone have for what I'm doing?
Thanks a lot,
mechtn
I may also want to run a simple email server as long as its secure and people can't relay off of it.
Thanks,
mechtn
Thanks for the guide.
My current installation so far is....
Did a custom install off of CD1. I unchecked everything and told it minimal at the very bottom.
Everything went fine and rebooted and i can login as root.
Should i go ahead with these commands to get my system up to date and then do the firewall or what?
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install kernel
apt-get install kernel#2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
Thanks,
mechtn
no
you should do
apt-get update
apt-get install kernel
and then from the list it provides....
apt-get install kernel**********
where
kernel********** is the latest version applicable to your box
cheers
anyweb
So far to setup my system...
1. Start FTP
2. open
ftp.freshrpms.net
3. At ftp prompt typed 'binary' to switch to binary mode *ascii mode doesnt download rpm file correctly*
4. CD /pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/2/apt/
5. get apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
6. Quit FTP
7. rpm -Uvh apt_0.5.15cnc3_0.1.fr.i386.rpm
8. apt-get update
Waiting for it to download the packages...
Next after the download finished i did..
apt-get install kernel
I went back to the chatroom and said .. erm so i got the packages updated and ran the command apt-get install kernel but it told me to specify a kernel to retrieve and i'm not really sure which one i need.
uname -ar
2.6.5-1.358 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
was told to run that uname command and paste my response... well i can't paste it so i typed it excluding the date.
Still how do i tell which kernel to pick?
ok after
apt-get install kernel
you will be given an error, along with a list of kernels to pick
please paste that here
cheers
anyweb
apt-get install kernel provided the following....
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package kernel is a virtual package provided by:
kernel-smp#2.6.6-1.435 2.6.6-1.435
kernel-smp#2.6.6-1.435.2.1 2.6.6-1.435.2.1
kernel-smp#2.6.6-1.427 2.6.6-1.427
kernel#2.6.6-1.435 2.6.6-1.435
kernel#2.6.6-1.435.2.1 2.6.6-1.435.2.1
kernel#2.6.6-1.427 2.6.6-1.427
kernel-smp#2.6.5-1.358 2.6.5-1.358
kernel#2.6.5-1.358 2.6.5-1.358 [installed]
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package kernel is a virtual package with multiple good providers.
Ok so anyweb tells me to run this...
apt-get install kernel#2.6.6-1.435
Not really sure why but I'm doing it!
More to come..