Re: Small LAMP install/distro

Jim Lucas wrote:

tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote:

Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :)

one other thing. fedore + yum will do all the work for you with regards to decencies and system requirements. The reason I de-select everything from the installer, is that it likes to install a bunch of stuff that I will never you. Plus it is just more crap to try and keep up-to-date and happy. Then, I only install exactly what I need. But one nice thing is, is that the package manager (rpm) is rather handy. You can install stuff, test with it, build with it, then remove it when it is no longer needed. You might check into Fedora Core 7. It was just released at the first of this month. Fedora put themselves on a 5 month version window. So, version 8 is going to be out in November. You can check the website for details on that. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ This will give you all the info you need.

Your suggestions sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Greatly appreciated! Actually.. one question. Won't it try to set up a swap partition? Or will what you recommend keep that to a minimum too?

you can choose to customize the partition process, and at that point, you can create a 100meg swap if you want.

Thanks again.. finally some useful information to a simple question. hah (not that I don't appreciate the advice that's been given so far.. it's just not what I was looking for) -TG = = = Original message = = = I would install Fedora Core 6. When asked which packages to install, uncheck everything. Then, once you have the install complete, using yum install ~httpd ~php ~mysql ~samba Here is my current running packages for the above programs httpd-2.2.4-2.fc6 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.8.1a-1.2.2 mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6 mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12-2.2 mysql-server-5.0.27-1.fc6 php-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-cli-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-common-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-mbstring-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-mysql-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-pdo-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 php-pear-1.4.9-4 php-pgsql-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 samba-3.0.24-7.fc6 samba-client-3.0.24-7.fc6 samba-common-3.0.24-7.fc6 system-config-samba-1.2.35-1.1 don't install the devel packages of anything all of this installed on top of the base install should be well under 1g make sure and run 'yum update' seems like there are updates every couple hours.

I have never tried setting up an install without one. I'm sure that it can be used without one though, you might just be limited on what you can do with it. But what it sounds like you are wanting to do with it, it won't matter. If you are running this through VM Ware, you will allot it a given amount of hard drive space. To the installer, that will look like one large hard drive, that you can partition and allocate to your hearts desire. Meaning, that you should be able to have a swap file or not. Just a matter of creating the partition for it or not. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what your intentions are??? If so, please explain further.

-- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare