mairving — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:38:28 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Busy
silly question:
can you split the drive and install both? to have option at start up as to what to use

Yep, you can either use a third party product like PartitionMagic or System Commander. Most like RedHat and Mandrake will also give you the option of installing on the same drive as Windows.

Busy — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 05:53:13 +0000

silly question:
can you split the drive and install both? to have option at start up as to what to use

Mark Hensler — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 04:03:46 +0000

Make sure you have plenty of time before starting an install. It took me a month before I got my first satisfied install. I used Mandrake 8.0, and compiled my own Apache, PHP, Perl, and mySQL.

It's been a year since that first install, and I recently upgraded (or re-compiled) Apache, PHP, mySQL, and installed FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions and it took about 8 hours.

Be prepared to do a lot of reading. Especially if you plan on compiling your own stuff, as opposed to using RPMs.

mairving — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 01:14:54 +0000

Most any of the distros will work for you. RedHat, SUSE and Mandrake are the most popular. I tend to prefer Slackware but it doesn't have the slick graphical installer like some of the others and you have to fdisk it yourself, which is a bit different from the Windows version. Coming from a Windows background, the first thing to learn is that you don't really need the desktop to run a server in Linux. I tend to think that it gets in the way myself. Most tasks are best accomplished at the shell. To get anywhere with Linux, you should learn the basic commands, something about the file structure and how to build and compile apps from the source. Most new installs will install PHP, MySQL, Perl and Apache for you if you want. You might lose a few hairs but you can learn a lot by compiling them yourself. Versions don't really matter quite as much in the Linux world as possibly what kernel you are running.

If you need further help or links, please let us know.

nike_guy_man — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 01:06:20 +0000

REdhat 7.3 makes it very easy to install them
Just download the ISOs and burn them to CDs, then load them in and reboot the system
It'll install it, and choose 'select individual packages' and then choose the PHP, Apache, and MySQL files... althought choosing 'custom' or 'server' for type gets all of those... but not the devel files

I'm getting RH 8.0 now... lets see how this goes

Busy — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:42:20 +0000

you can install Apache/MySql/PHP via a bundle, try http://www.firepages.com.au/

sorry no help on the linux bit

zollet — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:41:42 +0000

Download RedHat 7.3 or 8.0. I haven't personally installed RedHat 7.3 but have heard that it's very very easy. Then you can simply download .rpm for Apache, PHP and MySQL and you'll be all done or you can follow the install instructions on their websites.