How To Install A Debian Based Distro On An EasySpeedy Server - Page 3
Preparing The Chroot Environment
Enable swap:
mkswap /dev/sda10
swapon /dev/sda10
Format your partitions to ext3:
mke2fs -j /dev/sda5
mke2fs -j /dev/sda6
mke2fs -j /dev/sda7
mke2fs -j /dev/sda8
mke2fs -j /dev/sda9
Mount your formatted partitions.
mkdir /mnt/debian
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/debian/
mkdir /mnt/debian/home
mkdir /mnt/debian/usr
mkdir /mnt/debian/tmp
mkdir /mnt/debian/var
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/debian/home
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/debian/usr
mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/debian/tmp
mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/debian/var
Download and install a basic Debian installation with debootstrap:
mkdir /root/work
cd /root/work
wget http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.3.2_all.deb
ar -x debootstrap_0.3.3.2_all.deb
cd /
zcat /root/work/data.tar.gz | tar xv
debootstrap --arch i386 etch /mnt/debian/ ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
Now let's get in the chroot:
mount -t proc proc /mnt/debian/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/debian/dev
LC_ALL= chroot /mnt/debian /bin/bash
export TERM=xterm-color
Ok, so now we're in the chroot.
Configuring Your Basic System
Edit /etc/fstab:
nano /etc/fstab
The file should look something like this:
# /etc/fstab: información estática de sistema de ficheros. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda7 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda9 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda10 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,rw,sync,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 udf,iso9660,user,noauto 0 0
For backward compatibility reasons, it is recommended doing this:
cd /media
mkdir cdrom0
ln -s cdrom0 cdrom
cd /
ln -s media/cdrom
Now log in to the EasySpeedy control panel again and click on server details. You should see a lot of information related to the network environment of your server. For editing /etc/networks, you need the IP address that is labeled network.
nano /etc/networks
localnet 82.103.XXX.X
Now, let's move on to configure /etc/network/interfaces.
nano /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 82.103.XXX.XXX
netmask 255.255.240.0
network 82.103.XXX.X
broadcast 82.103.XXX.XXX
gateway 82.103.XXX.X
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 82.103.XXX.X
dns-search easyspeedy.com
nano /etc/resolv.conf
search easyspeedy.com nameserver 82.103.XXX.X
If you dont want to use UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) enter no as UTC value in the following config file:
editor /etc/default/rcS
# # /etc/default/rcS # # Default settings for the scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ # # For information about these variables see the rcS(5) manual page. # # This file belongs to the "initscripts" package. TMPTIME=0 SULOGIN=no DELAYLOGIN=no UTC=no VERBOSE=no FSCKFIX=no RAMRUN=no RAMLOCK=no
Now its time to configure your timezone. In my case I selected 2 (for America), and then Santiago (de Chile).
tzconfig
Configure /etc/hostname:
nano /etc/hostname
e82-XXX-1XX-49s
Now it's /etc/hosts' turn.
nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost 82.XXX.XXX.49 e82-XXX-1XX-49s.easyspeedy.com e82-XXX-1XX-49s # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
As we will be needing additional software, we must add the Etch repositories to include more packages and security updates.
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
aptitude update
