Comments on: setting up your own web presence http://www.lizardking.biz/2007/11/setting-up-your-own-web-presence/ for keeping track of my digital experiments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:37:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://www.lizardking.biz/2007/11/setting-up-your-own-web-presence/comment-page-1/#comment-6 admin Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:57:38 +0000 http://www.lizardking.biz/index.php/2007/11/30/setting-up-your-own-web-presence/#comment-6 Some questions I received about this post from my buddy Devin: D: "I was wondering how you managed your VPS?" JZ: The hosting provider I get my VPS through provides a pre-installed control panel, that I can manage my entire VPS through, but for tweaks and such I have to SSH into my VPS and do some command-line junk. If I wanted to add in another application that did not come pre-installed, for instance a counter strike or team speak server. D: "With Vista on my first partition, is it safe to install the grub boot loader? Debian tutorial says that we need a static IP address. What do I do if my IP address is given via DHCP?" JZ: As long as you don't overwrite your Vista partition, everything should be just fine. I definitely suggest backing up your data to some removable media first though. The only problem might occur when you want to remove the Linux partition holding the Grub boot loader, then you have to overwrite the MBR (master boot record) with your Windows install disk, so Windows will boot in first again. I haven't done a partition on my Vista machine before, but you might not even have to use the Grub. I was poking around my Vista release the other day and I found something about multi-boot from Vista. Well you don't have to have a static IP address, but it makes it easier when you need to find/access your machine directly by IP address. It is required in a server setup, so you don't have to constantly update your DNS records pointing to the server. It's not that hard to find out the variables for doing your network setup, just do an "ifconfig" command in Debian or an "ipconfig" command in Windows. Which should give you your subnet/netmask, and gateway address. Some questions I received about this post from my buddy Devin:
D: “I was wondering how you managed your VPS?”
JZ: The hosting provider I get my VPS through provides a pre-installed control panel, that I can manage my entire VPS through, but for tweaks and such I have to SSH into my VPS and do some command-line junk. If I wanted to add in another application that did not come pre-installed, for instance a counter strike or team speak server.

D: “With Vista on my first partition, is it safe to install the grub boot loader? Debian tutorial says that we need a static IP address. What do I do if my IP address is given via DHCP?”
JZ: As long as you don’t overwrite your Vista partition, everything should be just fine. I definitely suggest backing up your data to some removable media first though. The only problem might occur when you want to remove the Linux partition holding the Grub boot loader, then you have to overwrite the MBR (master boot record) with your Windows install disk, so Windows will boot in first again.
I haven’t done a partition on my Vista machine before, but you might not even have to use the Grub. I was poking around my Vista release the other day and I found something about multi-boot from Vista.
Well you don’t have to have a static IP address, but it makes it easier when you need to find/access your machine directly by IP address. It is required in a server setup, so you don’t have to constantly update your DNS records pointing to the server. It’s not that hard to find out the variables for doing your network setup, just do an “ifconfig” command in Debian or an “ipconfig” command in Windows. Which should give you your subnet/netmask, and gateway address.

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