Linux Comic of the Day
Heh, if only. The fastest I’ve gotten a full Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP server running on OpenSUSE Linux was 37 minutes, and that includes adding all of the installation repositories. It was also installed without X, running in init level 3.
So, what are people’s records on getting a given LAMP stack up and running?
December 8th, 2008 at 9:45 am
With Gentoo? Probably about an hour. Getting a bootable system is incredibly easy. Getting it up to date takes time. 😉
December 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
An hour to update portage, then an hour to download all the packages, then an hour to compile each one, is that what you’re saying? 🙂
December 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Ubuntu + kickstart + network install + LAMP stack: 5min 49 seconds
😉
December 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Christer,
Hey, buddy! I’d squeal with glee to actually see that happen. What can we set up? I would honestly and truly enjoy beholding such a feat. My house or yours? 🙂
December 8th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Christer,
I’m sure you’re running that with PXE and local mirrors of the repos, no? That’s the way I roll 🙂
Gabe
December 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
openSUSE 11.0 + network install over Gigabit Ethernet – about 25 minutes.. 20 for install, 5 for doing “zypper in yast2-http-server apache2 apache2-mod_php5 php5 php5-mysql mysql mysql-client phpMyAdmin”
December 8th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
*JUST* those packages- Apache, MySQL and PHP? Nothing else? With Red Hat and Kickstart, this should be accomplished in under 5 minutes. All you need is the DVD .iso, a fully built kickstart, and a bootable disk to launch it. As an instructor for Guru Labs, we did installs all the time. Installing everything- SSH, DNS, DHCP, PXE, NFS, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, XINETD, X11, and many, many others generally happened in under 10 minutes- fully configured too, with users and groups, firewall, TCP wrappers, SELinux- the whole ball of wax. Of course, this assumes local installs, and not over the network. Once that machine is installed, you could “image” it with the anaconda-ks.cfg in /root. Put it under an HTTP dir, restart Apache, then PXE boot the rest of the machines. Depending on your hardware, you should be able to image 20 machines in exactly the same configuration in under 15 minutes, if they are on a fully-switch 100 Mbit network. Go gigabit, and it shouldn’t take you longer than 10 minutes.
Of course, theoretically, you can do this with AutoYAST and SUSE, preseed and Ubuntu, and so forth.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I can get an Ubuntu Server + LAMP stack installed in 10min or less without the aid of any kickstart, preseed, etc. Adding in a kickstart/preseed file and it cuts down to about 5-6 like Christer said. There’s a lot to be said for the inefficiency of the human choosing options.
Hrm, I can even get to a FreeBSD + AMP in about 10min too. I’ll have to post specs.
So far it seems that SUSE sucks. 🙂
December 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
considering the iFruit comes with a preloaded OS, I’d also consider the 10 minutes quite long to set it up 😉
December 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Now *THAT* is funny. 🙂