[NTLUG:Discuss] Beginner!!

[GWH Technical Training]

I agree with Patrick on using RedHat Standard Edition.  The RPM installation
media (RedHat Package Manager) is very easy to use for installation of a
variety of programs.  Apache is included.  When I first got interested in
setting up a web server, I used Apache, and had it up and running in about 5
minutes without problems.  If you are going to download RedHat 7.2, though, you
really need to have cable or DSL, as it is two ISO downloads of about 650M each
that are later burned to a CD for installation.  But this includes everything
you need.  Another option is go the store and buy the CDs, for about $30...

Good luck, Ben...

Gary Haass
RHCE



Patrick Parks wrote:

> Red Hat Standard edition will work fine. The Professional edition comes
> bundled with some tech support if you think you are going to need it, but on
> that note, I have received better support from this mailing list than I
> could ever hope for through REdHat or any other vendor. You can also
> download for free RedHat 7.2(LatestVersion) at
> http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux72.html. Hope this helps out, I am
> sure you will get a good bit of responses from this list, good luck!
>
> Patrick Parks
> Radio Frequency Engineer
> Berliner Communications
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> parksp at bcisites.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of lee
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Beginner!!
>
> hey, i used to be a beginner too, welcome!  yup, linux will run apache
> software, which is a webserver, you can get the software from
> http://www.apache.org, click the link to the http server.  i don't know
> about differences from std/professional versions of red hat; i'm sure
> that either will be more than sufficient for what you might want to do.
>   and it's easy to have a dual boot machine, i have set that up many
> times  and in fact, you're going about it the right way by having a
> separate hard drive dedicated to linux -> it is a much simpler
> configuration and install that way.
>
> -- lee
>
> Benjamin Long wrote:
>
> > I'm new to Linux and have heard that its great for hosting websites. Which
> > Linux would you recommend to accomplish this and also which version. I'm
> > thinking Red Hat but unsure whether the Standard or Professional edition.
> > I'm running a Pentium II. Also is it possible to dual boot between Linux
> and
> > Win 98. Win 98 is currently installed and thinking of getting an external
> > harddrive to install Linux. Anycomments on that idea would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
>
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