Installing debian woody

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In essence, I made notes as I went, and I tried to format them into this document that will hopefully help somebody. It is basically the same as on gnome. I installed debian 3. I made sure that all the gnome1 development libraries were not on the system when I built these packages. You have to be careful, I pulled in libgtk1. The list below describes the changes I need to make to get the packages to build. Also built with gcc Probably could have just not built the python-vte packages.

Build with oggvorbis from woody. Now go sure to include iptables support Firewall! After you have left the driver modules menu you must configure your network:. For the hostname I highly recommend a subdomain that will not be used for a virtual site on that server later on. Something like server1 , server2 , So if your domain is example. When prompted for Automatic Network Configuration , select No.

Then enter the main IP address of the system, its network mask, the gateway address and the domain of the system here: example. Specify the DNS servers the system should use e. Then reboot the system. After the reboot configure your time zone:. Do not enable md5 passwords:.

Then set the root password , create the additional user admin and enter his password. If you don't need pcmcia packages remove them.

Don't use a PPP connection to install the system a server should have a permanent connection to the internet :. So I choose http as method for accessing the Debian archive under Apt Configuration :. Select a mirror that is close to you:. Normally, you don't use a proxy so leave the field empty:. When asked Use security updates from security. Important: Since June Debian Sarge 3. Because we want to install Debian Woody 3. The Woody installer still thinks that Woody is the stable release.

You are now on the shell. Login as root. Afterwards run. Then run tasksel :. The other software will be installed later. Don't run dselect don't even think of it, you will be lost! For the next steps you can accept the default values.

Then configure your locales. Then set up your ssh server:. The installation begins. At the end you will be asked if you wish to delete any previously downloaded. You can answer Y here. When the installer wants to configure exim enter 5 no configuration because we will use postfix as our mail server. Now the base system is ready:. Configure additional IP Addresses.

It will look similar to this:. If you want to add the IP address Setting the Hostname. For security reasons we want to run BIND chrooted so we have to do the following steps:.

Create a symlink to the new config directory from the old location to avoid problems when bind is upgraded in the future :. Make null and random devices, and fix permissions of the directories:. Restart the logging daemon:. It should now look similar to this:. After you have established the connection to your postfix mail server type.

Otherwise you can proceed with the Apache configuration. Under LoadModules add:. Under Listen add:. Listen 80 Listen Under "Addtype application" insert:. Before "Section 3 : Virtual Hosts" add:. DirectoryIndex index.

Synchronize the System Clock.