The Installation
As i said in the (Previous 2 installs) post, I installed linux twice (Meaning i used 3 different installs currently using install 3)....To be truthful, Nothing was wrong with the installations (Since i log what i do and that makes it easy to reverse), but for the sake of this BLOG i wanted to try to install in three different ways...
The first time i had 2 hard disks on the machine, One Seagate and the other western digital, the first 20 GBs and the second 10 Gbs
I had the 20 GBs partitioned into 2 partitions each 10 GBs
--Note, if you have an old BIOS the boot partition for linux must be in the first 7 or 8 GBs of your hard drive, Most newer computers (P3+) have new bioses (and some P2s) so you should have no problems if your machine has new unlimited boot bios!
So i had a 10 GB partition NTFS with windows XP on it...
The other 2 were not formatted !
So i installed LINUX on the second 10 GB drive, and formatted the 10/20 GB partition on the first hard disk as FAT and put all the shared files (like MP3s and documents there) This way, The FAT32 partition is viewable to windows, and once mounted can be seen by linux (although support for FAT32 on linux is experimental) it worked READ only like a charm
Why read only, well the FAT32 partition is not linux native, It has to be mounted, Unfortunately at that time i used to mount it as ROOT user and that made it inaccessible to other users in write mode by default, although i could write to it when logged in as root, i shouldn't be using the computer as root much :)
So the trick is to mount it by the user ROOT (God Account) and then CHMOD the result as 777, We will see how we will do that later (coz i really don't know how yet, i only know it is possible)*
That's more or less enough for the first install, i messed around with linux, changed a few files, learned how to use GRUB, found out about what applications are there, then messed everything up by playing with every CONFIG file and watching the results...
Installation 1 was a week full of exploring...
Then i took out the hard disk with LINUX, and installed linux in place of the second 10GB partition on the first disk (so i have a disk with linux and windows sharing the drive in half)
This one worked excellent ! But then i was learning to Recompile my programs, reinstalling them and changing the BUILD every time, I upgraded the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) to the most recent versions, All upgrades went fine, except for one thing, Apache did not like PHP and stopped working unless i disable PHP in it) so we format for the clean final install !
The third install i took the entire hard drive (20GBs) for LINUX and got windows out of the way....
So lets trace any installation of the above
--First you insert the first CD into the drive, this CD is bootable..
--The computer boots from the CD and asks you to press enter if you want to install in a GUI ! You do that, its for us newbies
--Clicking NEXT for the following 3 screens
--Select Custom Installation
--Then Disk drude offered me to do the partitioning for me (selecting space for individual drives) so i said OK man thanx, ill take that....
--Disk drude then asked me, if i would like to install linux on the drives unformatted space, or over any Linux partitions, Or over the entire drive ! Well, i said, Over all partitions (the entire drive)....
--Then i have 2 options, What boot loader should i use, There is LILO (the older) and GRUB the newer, Which is better ? I advise you to GRUB...
--Then i was asked how i wanted to connect to the internet, Ok this one is different, but i connect to another computer that connects to te internet, So i am connecting via DHCP (in windows it is share this connection with other computers from the connections properties)
So i asked for that to be automatic as well...
Asked me if i wanted a firewall, Well, i said no (if anyone is looking forward hack my MP3 oriented computer :)
--The next question was, what language support do you want to add ? I said Arabic, you could pick German
--Now the screen asks me for a password for the ROOT account (do not loose this when you set it, if you do loose it, it would be easier to reformat than to do anything about it)!
--I see the components to install menu, Scrolled Down the custom installation components list, and clicked install everything (as you will find out, taking out is easier than putting in ! at least it is less time consuming... Anyway both are pretty easy
Now all went fine till i was asked for my Monitor VGA driver, i found the closest to mine and it works great...
Restarting, Click here to see what came after the restart ! Surprise
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