The purpose of this article is to explain, step by step, how to install Ubuntu (Ubuntu is my distro of choice, but the steps should work equally well for other distros) using a Windows 2000/XP client.
Introduction
PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) is not something new, but not often used by home users, as installing an operating system [...]
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Check System Compatibility
Type:
ifconfig -a
you should see something like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:04:5E:78
inet addr:82.36.57.31 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe04:5e78/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5561334 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:214278 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:462931787 (441.4 Mb) TX bytes:28300458 (26.9 Mb)
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xa000
If it doesnt say MULTICAST you should reconfigure your kernal and add [...]
Apr
6
Getting in
start a new screen session: screen
attach to a running session: screen -r
attach multiple terminals to an attached, running session: screen -rx
the “ultimate attach”: screen -dRR (Attaches to a screen session. If the session is attached elsewhere, detaches that other display. If no session exists, creates one. If multiple sessions exist, uses the first one.)
Escape [...]
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alias - this allows the user view the current aliases
awk - this allows the user to search for a pattern within a file
bdiff - compares two large files
bfs - scans a large file
cal - shows a calendar
cat - concatenates and prints a file
cc - c compiler
cd - changes directories
chgrb - changes a file groups ownership
chmod [...]
Apr
6
Install MySQL 4.1.3
Download these RPMS to /usr from http://www.mysql.com
MySQL-server-4.1.8-0.i386.rpm
MySQL-devel-4.1.8-0.i386.rpm
MySQL-client-4.1.8-0.i386.rpm
MySQL-shared-4.1.8-0.i386.rpm
Install them with: rpm -i MySQL*.rpm
Source Files
Download these files (or newer versions) to /usr/local/src
(the packages will be located in /usr/local/lib when they are installed unless otherwise stated)
zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
libxml2-2.6.11.tar.gz from http://www.xmlsoft.org/
php-5.0.3.tar.gz from http://www.php.net/downloads.php
httpd-2.0.52.tar.gz from http://httpd.apache.org/
http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7e.tar.gz
http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libssh2/libssh2-0.4.tar.gz
Decompress the files
cd /usr/local/src
tar xzf zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
tar xzf libxml2-2.6.11.tar.gz
tar xzf httpd-2.0.52.tar.gz
tar xzf php-5.0.3.tar.gz
tar xzf [...]