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  1. Paullas

    Paullas Super Moderator Staff Member

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    can anyone help me install freebsd on a server 2003 box.

    if yes can you msn me on paullas@hotmail.co.uk
     
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    FreeBSD is an OS. You would install it instead of Win2k3 not within it.
    Why do you want FreeBSD?
    Unless you do really need FreeBSD I would recommend CentOS which is basically Red Hat without the support to be paid for. That is if you even need a *nix system...
     
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    Paullas Super Moderator Staff Member

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    thanks for reply but yes i need it locally ;) aswell as in datacentre.
     
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    Hi Paul,

    I use FreeBSD all the time. It's an excellent operating system. Just to be clear though, do you mean that you want to replace your windows install with FreeBSD? I could assist you with that.

    P.
     
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    And I know it fairly well though my more recent knowledge is of Red Hat.
     
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    Paullas Super Moderator Staff Member

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    if anyone can tell me what hardware and software to use and download that would be great.
     
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    Installation is relatively easy - you download a .ISO file from the FreeBSD site (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html) and then burn it to CD. You then boot from the CD and "follow your nose" :)

    There's plenty of documentation on the FreeBSD site and/or the internet at large, especially covering things like getting it installed and installing PHP/Apache/MySQL.

    Installing it on a server at a remote location is a bit more tricky if you don't have physical access.

    It should run on most PCs... You may find driver issues with things like wireless network cards but generally speaking it'll work out of the box in text only mode.

    My FreeBSD is a bit out of date now though, moved on to Debian a year or so ago.
     
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    Paullas Super Moderator Staff Member

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    ok ive installed freebsd 5.5, got ssh working (thanks philip) but now struggling to ftp onto the box :)

    any ideas much appreciated
     
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    Is the ftp daemon running?

    # ps aux |grep ftp

    You should see proftp running.

    You can then add a user account and use ftp (anything other than root):

    # adduser

    Then follow the prompts.

    You will need to chown directories for that user as root in order to access them via ftp.
     
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    I'd recommend using secure copy (scp) - something like this:

    Code:
    scp remote_user@remote_host:remote_file local_file
    
    -or-
    
    scp local_file remote_user@remote_host:remote_file
    P.
     
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    FreeBSD does not use proftpd by default, if you really feel you need FTP services, just uncomment the FTP line in /etc/inetd.conf, check you have enable_inetd="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, and either start or restart inetd as root (restart using 'killall -HUP inetd' or start it by entering 'inetd').

    Additionally there is no need to fiddle around with adding users and changing ownerships (chown) as it's already done in FreeBSD.

    Cheers,

    P.
     
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    Thanks Philipp - useful info for me too.
     
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    Paullas Super Moderator Staff Member

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    ok ive installed debian :)

    ive installed all the stuff i need but now need to create a database and import a .sql backup file i have.

    can someone pm me how i can create and import the .sql when im logged in using putty
     
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    Login to mysql:
    mysql -u username -p

    CREATE DATABASE databasename;
    EXIT

    mysql -u username -p dbname < /path/to/dump.sql
     
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