On Jul 10, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
I assume that following Steve Allen's installation method would install a basic version of Lenny, and I would then need to install various additional software applications and drivers? Also, I would additionally install things like Apache2, php5, mySQL, phpmyadmin, etc., from package installers?Yes, you do need to install additional applications. I don't think you need additional drivers unless you install a hardware device that requires proprietary firmwares, etc. The lenny CD/DVD during install asks if you want to set up a mail server, web server, file server. You can select these and it will install the above software you mentioned. Although I am not too sure which ones it chooses (e.g. for database mysql or postgres).
Thanks for the info. I've been plodding my way through the massive Debian-PowerPC Installation Guide and have yet to finish.
I guess the standard procedure must be to go ahead and try to install, then ask questions here when things don't go correctly?
I currently have 384 MB of RAM installed, but could increase it if necessary. What would be a good amount of RAM to have installed?Sounds like it is enough. But if you start using heavy window managers with multiple simultaneous GUI apps, you might start seeing swaps.
Yes, I read that both Gnome and KDE require more RAM and a faster CPU than I have available. But I suppose I don't need a fancy desktop for a server.
I want to use a TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR (ver. A or ver 3.0R) Gigabit Ethernet PCI NIC card. I do have the makefile and source files to compile (Realtec) drivers for Linux kernel 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6, although I don't understand the exact procedures to follow (at this time). Has anyone used this NIC and drivers?
I guess I'll just have to try this and see how it works. Does anybody know when and how I would compile the driver for this?
I have several video cards to choose from: IX3D Ultimate-Rez Rev 1.01 (8 MB) Twin Turbo 128M8 Rev 3.6 (8 MB) Twin Turbo 128M/M2 Rev 3.7 (4 or 8 MB ?) Twin Turbo 128M8A Rev 3.8.1 (8 MB) ATi Nexus 128 (32 MB) ATi Radeon 7000 Mac Edition (32 MB) Are any of these video cards known to be a problem?I use an ATI Radeon Mobility (8MB) VRAM. No problems so far.
When searching through the archives for this list, I saw many people having problems with the Twin Turbo cards. Hopefully, this has been fixed by now.
I have several PCI SCSI cards to choose from: ATTO ExpressPCI UL3D ATTO ExpressPCI UL2D ATTO ExpressPCI DC Adaptec AHA-3940UWD Adaptec AHA-2940U2W/Mac Adaptec AHA-2930CU2W/Apple 2 Mac Are any of these SCSI cards known to be a problem?Not sure, but probably not.
Another "try it and find out" situation I guess.
I would assume that I could install Lenny and its applications in its own partition, then have my file server data and web server data on a separate SCSI drive or drives? Could the data drives be set up as software RAID 1 (mirror) in Lenny?Yes you can do that.
I finally found the section in the Installation Guide about hard drive strategies, partitioning, RAID, etc. Looks like I've got a LOT of reading to do before I should even think about installing Debian. :-)
Good luck.
Thanks.