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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
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I may also want to run a simple email server as long as its secure and people can't relay off of it.
Thanks,
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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
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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
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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?
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ok after
apt-get install kernel
you will be given an error, along with a list of kernels to pick
please paste that here
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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.
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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..
