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Installing Debian Sarge alias Debian 3.1
Requirements To install such a system you will need the following:
1 The Base System Insert your Sarge Netinstall CD into your system and boot from it (enter expert at the boot prompt and enter linux26 at the boot prompt to install a 2.6 kernel). The installation starts, and first you have to choose your Language
Select your country
Keyboard layout
The hardware detection starts:
Enter the hostname. In this example, my system is called server1.example.com, so I enter server1:
Enter your domain name. In this example, this is example.com:
Now you have to partition your hard disk. I will create one big partition (with the mount point /) and a little swap partition:
Now the base system is being installed:
I install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record:
Afterwards remove the Sarge Netinstall CD from your system and reboot it:
Configure your time zone
Enter a password for root
Create a second user admin
Choose your installation method. Since I want to do an installtion over the network I select http or ftp.
Select a mirror for your installation:
Enter a proxy for the installtion (if necessary). Normally you can leave this field empty.
Under Debian software selection I only choose Mail server. I will install all other services manually later on.
The network installation starts:
Do not configure Exim as we will replace it with Postfix later on:
Congratulations! Your base system is finished now:
2 Installing And Configuring The Rest Of The System Configure The Network Because the Debian Sarge installer has configured our system to get its network settings via DHCP, we have to change that now because a server should have a static IP address. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address 172.29.5.1): # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The primary network interface auto eth1 iface eth1 inet Static address 172.29.5.29 netmask 255.255.255.0 Then restart your network: /etc/init.d/networking restart Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add some nameservers: Search Server Name server1 ipaddress Name server2 ipaddress
Edit /etc/hosts and add your new IP address 172.29.5.29 server1.example.com 3 Setting The Hostname echo server1.example.com > /etc/hostname After setting up the basic setup now we need to Install the packages This article can be found here |
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