Linux setup steps/Install Debian Etch 4.0
From Nick Jenkins
- Boot from Debian 4.0r0 i386 Netinst CD
- Enter (default installation)
- Lang: English [default]
- Country: Australia
- Keymap: American English [default]
- Primary network interface: Eth0 [default]
- "Go back" after network autodetection
- Configure network manually
- 192.168.0.100 as IP address, and then take the defaults for netmask, gateway, and DNS.
- Hostname: netserver
- Domain name: YourHostName.com
- Partitioning method: Guided - yes entire disk [default]
- Disk to partition: "SCSI3 (1,0,0) (sda) - 18.2 Gb MegaRAID LD 0 RAID1 17G" [default, only choice]
- Partitioning scheme: All files in one partition [default]
- Finish partitioning, and write changes to disk [default]
- Yes, write changes to disk. [default]
- City: Sydney [default]
- Root password: standard
- Extra Username: nickj
- Extra Username Password: standard
- Use a network mirror: Yes [default]
- Australian mirror [default]
- use: ftp.au.debian.org [default]
- Proxy: leave blank [default]
- Participate in package user survey: No [default]
- Choose software to install: Web server + File server + Mail server + SQL database + Standard system
- Continue installing libc-client without maildir support: Yes [default]
- Workgroup name: WORKGROUP
- Modify smb.conf to use WINS settings for DHCP: Yes
- Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record: Yes [default]
- remove CD
- Continue [default]
- Machine reboots
- Check boots okay, login as root, check networking okay, check SSH running.
- SSH into the box, and can now do remaining stuff below remotely via SSH.
