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Installation : Getting Started First and foremost, to get anything working you need a working computer that is able to be a CD-ROM bootup so that we can install the Operating System. Any system from the PIII and beyond sould be able to do the trick and since hosting web pages does not require a lot of resources, a low-end PIII would be all it takes to do the trick and get you all started up with your very own webserver. Although we caution that this is not always the best way to do it, Residential Lines and Connections are not always very stable and sometimes power outrages do happen, so it would be best to have your unit racked up at a Data Center for both protectin and connection speed. Before we jump into the installation of our chosen OS, please also note that in a connection of a webserver, Download speeds are practically useless as we do not always use it to get information from other sources, but what we are interested in is the Download speeds. if you have a 8mps / 128kps connection, it would mean that your personal webserver will run at only 128kps when been queried from an external connection.... Now lets get on with the installation bits. Our chosen OS will be the RedHat Version 9.0 distribution, because its the oldest Redhat version and has reached its EOL so we are sure that there will be little updating to change to the Structure. This however is very similiar to the other distributions of *nix and the tutorials in this website would apply to most of them. ( eg. Mandrake, Fedora Core, CentOS etc ) To get started you need to first download the software and we have prepared the ISO files for you so that you can convert it into the actual CD. Also included are some essential RPM files that you would need to get it all running. shrike-i386-disc1.iso shrike-i386-disc2.iso shrike-i386-disc3.iso Download the above 3 files and then use a CD burning program to create the CDs from ISO files. ( Note not burn that single file to the CD, but to populate it with the contents of the file. ) Once the CDs are created, boot the unit that you want to install as a web server with CD1 then follow the steps below. 1) boot: linux text 2) Skip CDROM Medai test 3) OK on welcome message 4) English on Language selection 5) Select your keyboard Type 6) Selecy your mouse type if any 7) Select "Server" as your installation type 8) Use Disk Druid for your Disk Partitioning Setup 9) Select OK on warning screen. 10) Create the partitions as follows: Mount Point: / File System type : ext3 Allowable Disk: hda Size(MB): 2048 ( select fixed size) Mount Point: File System type : swap Allowable Disk: hda Size(MB): 512 ( select fixed size ) Mount Point: /var File System type : ext3 Allowable Disk: hda Size(MB): 2048 ( select fixed size ) Mount Point: /home File System type : ext3 Allowable Disk: hda Size(MB): ALL ( select fixed size) 11) Select OK after you are done. 12) Use GRUB as your boot loader. 13) Do not use a GRUB password 14) Select /dev/hda1 as your default boot partition. 15) write Master Boot Record as /dev/hda 16) Input your Network settings. 17) No Firewall 18) Select the languages you need it to support 19) Select your TimeZone. 20) Set your root opassword and begin installation. It will prompt you to insert specific Disks as needed and once you are done you would be able to log into the screen with the user "root" and your selected password. Your unit is not set and you can look into the downloads section to install various RPMs as you require. To install a RPM file, you will need to first download the file from the specific location and if your unit is connected to the web you can get it to download with the "WGET" command. Below ais a tutorial on how to get a file and install. After you have logged into the system issue the following commands line by line: cd / cd /home mkdir workbin chmod 700 workbin cd workbin wget http://ds.linuxshaman.com/downloads/openssh-3.9p1/openssh-3.9p1-11.i386.rpm rpm -ivh openssh-3.9p1-11.i386.rpm Where the first few commands created a directory for you to work in, the "wget" issues a command to a specific location and then request to download it. Lastly the "rpm -ivh" commands is used to command the rpm file ti install, show you the process and prints the hash display. We recommend that you install all the additional packages for RedHat 9.0.
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