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I dont think anything at this point in the install has been written to the disk of the machine and the installation of the stageX tarball is generally the first stage of actually writing data. However having booted from an i686 liveCD it may not be showing non-i686 installation files. I would probably download the standard x86 liveCD and start from scratch, you shouldnt have to repartition disks though, just mount them.
 
I thik the live CD must be an i386 (or i586) one as it's running an i686 one wouldn't run would it?

I'm seeing all the files on the ftp sites in links on the server console (now that took me right back a browser on a 80*25 terminal display :) )

live CD is install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso from http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.1/installcd/install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso which I downloaded this morning

HT

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proc/cpuinfo says that I have

flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx up
 
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I thik the live CD must be an i386 (or i586) one as it's running an i686 one wouldn't run would it?
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True as the liveCD wouldnt boot with its i686 kernel (I did wonder about this actually, turns out I just misread your earlier post slightly)

I'm seeing all the files on the ftp sites in links on the server console (now that took me right back a browser on a 80*25 terminal display :) )

live CD is install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso from http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.1/installcd/install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso which I downloaded this morning
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That is indeed a generic x86 liveCD :)

HT

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proc/cpuinfo says that I have

flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx up
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OK, looking at /proc/cpuinfo the main thing missing from i586 machines that is in i686 machines is SSE instructions. Is there a x86 stage3 tarball on the CD by any chance? If not, I found the following instructions for performing a stage1 install: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-420117-highlight-stage+1.html

The ones on the link to your earlier gentoo forums link seemed a bit on the brief side for me, but then I dont know what the "bootstrap.sh" script does.

I must admit that for setting up a LAMP server on low-level hardware Id have went with debian/arch/slackware, purely because they are a lot less time-consuming to get up and running!
 
man these debian servers are slow :(

I'll be attempting a deb install in a bit.

thanks in advance for your help when I have issues again...

I might have to retire this box and obtain something a little less antiquated, but that means money and linux is meant to be free :eek:

HT
 
you've mentioned FreeBSD several times yet you don't seem to have tried it... that would be my next move. It has a nice "ports" system - similar to apt - and is very stable. Don't see why it would have a problem running on that hardware...

also the install is text based - but with old-style text graphics, so it's actually very easy to do.

Rob
 
right then, debian seemed to be dead easy, downloded the minimal iso, installed it, connected to a server it installed MySQL Apache and PHP for me and re booted itself.

What other packages do I need to set my wife up to be able to connect to the server over our intranet, create new web sites and upload the various files required to it?

Thanks for the help

Paul
 
Some form of ftpd, I'm 99% sure it will have this already, or you can share the directory which is docroot of course.

The rest pretty much depends on how you are planning to manage the sites. Simplest solution would be to use a directory structure to separate the sites (i.e. /var/www/docroot/site_a, /var/www/docroot/site_b) which should be pretty clear and self explanatory, especially to a man with your abilities :p
 
I have a few well varied abilites, not many of them have anything to do with managing a LAMP server unfortunately. Could I install cpanel or something similar so she could do the admin though a web interface? This would stop me having to ssh into the box to do the directory creation etc.

Paul
 
Sure thing, any CMS should be easy to install.

Or you could install Samba to manage the sharing, that way you won't need to SSH everytime for mkdir.
 
You not got any better hardware lying around? :D Just a bit better spec and you could run ClarkConnect which provides a web interface for all that you want to do.

Or if you've already got Debian installed on the older system,
Code: 
apt-get install webmin

There's your interface :)

Hope that helps
 
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