Install Debian lenny 5.03 for i386
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Friday, 09 October 2009 14:10
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Prefer a graphical installer to have screenshots ;)

 

 

 

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Choose English for the installation process.

 

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Select other from the shortlist.

 

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Select Europe

 

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...and then choose Cyprus.

 

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Choose the appropriate keyboard layout.

 

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The installer checks the installation DVD, hardware.

 

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Prefered DHCP protocol to assign to the server an ip address at the begining. After the installation will finish  i will setup the ethernet configuration manually. DCHP server gives me a local IP address 192.168.10.2

 

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Give for my first client server a unique name - arc1 by which a network-attached device is known on a network.

 

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Give a domain agapiou.net. Maybe a domain name will be change to a subdomain (Example: arc1.agapiou.net) so all the servers will be part of a large domain. This will be done manually by edit the file hosts.

 

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Create a partition on my hard disk using entire dsik.

 

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The new external hard disk IDE 320GB.

 

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Create only two partition the swap and main partition.In the main partition will be mounted all the folders /home,  /etc, /sbin ...

 

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Click Finish and the swap and / (main partition) will be formated using swap and ext3 file type respectively.

 

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Confirm that we whant to write the changes to the disk.

 

 

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The base system is installed. Configure the package manage. Scan DVD 1 until 5 using the apt program.

 

 

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Give password for the root which is ... ;)

 

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Give full name for the user that it will be created in the next step.

 

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Create user stelios with non administratives activities.

 

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Enter twice password for the user stelios.

 

 

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Now i configure the sourcel.ist. Prefer http mirrors so we can download all the latest programs and system updates quickly.

 

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Choose Greece from the list.

 

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Select otenet server which the downloading is too fast.

 

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Leave this field blank because i don't use any proxy server to have access to the internet.

 

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Updating package.

 

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No need to participate in the package usage servey.

 

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Select the above collections software.

 

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The required packages are installed on the system.

 

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Istall Grub to the master boot record. - No need but it gives  as extra oprion to boot in safe mode. Maybe in the future this option will be helpful.

 

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Installation is complete. I removed the DVD from the drive and reboot the system. Enter into the the bios and give first device prioority the IDE 1 which is my hard disk.

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 October 2009 11:45 )