XAMPP on external drive: mapping trouble?

hcgtv · 2006-09-06 14:09:59

Destry wrote:

Does this mean I can use a free, combination solution (sftp/editor) like WinSCP3/Crimson Editor to work back and forth between the main drive and the VM…or do I have to go with an integrated tool like Ultraedit, SftpDrive, … at cost?

I use WinSCP to manage the files on my VPS and I can’t recommend it enough. There are options to configure what editors to use for what files, so you can open up one editor for .php files and another one for .txt files let’s say.

Destry · 2006-09-06 14:22:09

@marios: Hmmm “parallels”. I’ve seen some articles about that lately. Interesting, but no, this is not just for browser testing….thread is (or rather was) about XAMPP (which I currently use to test/use many open source systems), Sencer mentioned an alternative situation to XAMPP (namely VM) so I’m just following up with that a bit. The browser thing was just an afterthought that I’ve seen come up before, so I thought I’d see if I could kill two birds with one slung marble.

@Bert: WinSCP3…I have it. Been using it for a couple of years or so. It’s great. I have my favorite editor, currently Crimson Editor, configured in. I was just trying to make sure that I could in fact use WinSCP/Crimson to work between the main drive and the VM, instead of something like SftpDrive. Yes? No?

Sencer · 2006-09-06 14:51:32

Destry wrote:

Gotcha. So let me backpeddle a sec. Does this mean I can use a free, combination solution (sftp/editor) like WinSCP3/Crimson Editor to work back and forth between the main drive and the VM…or do I have to go with an integrated tool like Ultraedit, SftpDrive, … at cost?

You can use the free solution. It’s your decision which client-software you use.

At the core, all decisions are up to you, since you have full control over what’s installed in the VM. So if you decided you do not like ssh/sftp, then you could install a regular ftp-server, or telnet-server, or a samba-server (which is the linux-way of offering windows-compatible “shared folders”) or ….

The “only” thing the Virtualization-Sotware gives you is a an emulated computer with an emulated network-card.

marios · 2006-09-06 18:03:12

@Sencer , bert

I am trying to find a suitable Linux distro iso image for x86 Athlon (32bit) processor on force-2 board.
Downloading <a href=“http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-cd/this”>this</a> one.

(Hope that’s the right one)
Thought Debian might be suitable.
(Ubuntu is not reported to be campatible with Parrallels)
Poking around in windows Computer Managment Console, I realized that I
have now 5 network adapters showing up.
I ran allready VMPlayer Installer and then decided else towards Parallels.
VMplayer was a little better, since it found both of the physical adapters, while Parallels
only found the enabeled one. Therefore five.

@Destry, sorry for hitchhiking your post (not hijacking),
I just found it a nice opportunity to discuss some of this stuff in a little broader sense.

regards, marios

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Destry · 2006-09-06 18:12:57

@marios: Hitch away! I pick up the best scraps from threads like this…VM case in point. I’ll be giving it a run when I have more time to focus on it.

Carry on.

hcgtv · 2006-09-06 19:08:55

marios wrote:

I am trying to find a suitable Linux distro iso image for x86 Athlon (32bit) processor on force-2 board. Downloading <a href=“http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-cd/this”>this</a> one.

Debian should be fine, my home server has an AMD Athlon 3000+ processor on a Gigabyte 7N400 Pro II motherboard. I first loaded Debian Sarge, then upgraded to Etch and now it’s running Sid. I would of stuck with Sarge if it would of remained a server but I decided to turn it into a workstation.

The debian-31r2-i386-netinst.iso is what you should burn, it will install a base system and fetch what you need like Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.

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marios · 2006-09-07 14:43:55

hcgtv wrote:

The debian-31r2-i386-netinst.iso is what you should burn, it will install a base system and fetch what you need like Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.

Installation went nice under parallels with Sarge kernel 2.4, although some hardware doesn’t get detected ( Missing Drivers)
The biggest hurdles that I encountered, where A) the not so very good documentation of parallels, so I felt beeing a little on my own, to setup the VM first B) finding a suitable mirror and downloading the ISO (many timeouts).
I also found, that I can only work on a VM in full screen mode and not in VM console mode (strange)
C) The sometimes confusing installation options in the Debian setup GUI’s
I opted for Desktop install, that gave me a command prompt but no GUI, so I choose the easiest method
logged in as root and selected Desktop only using tasksel for the beginning.

I’ve heard that the Gnome and KDE are not so good with Debian, however, that would be of lesser importance, what I mostly want for
now is to use it, so I can access ext3/ journaled filesystems, which I couldn’t with my old Knoppix Disk.

However, all in all quite an adventurous experience.

@hcgtv

I assume, I can install Apache and mysql on a Desktop Sarge Install, can I ?

What about your WD USB Disk, can you confirm that it it spinns down after a while when no read and write access ?

regards, marios

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hcgtv · 2006-09-07 14:58:35

marios wrote:

I assume, I can install Apache and mysql on a Desktop Sarge Install, can I ? What about your WD USB Disk, can you confirm that it it spinns down after a while when no read and write access ?

The only difference between a Desktop and a Server is that in a desktop you decide to install X and a desktop environment. So yes, you can install any Server processes that you’d like – apt-get is your friend ;)

I can’t confirm the spin down on the USB drive cause it’s in my safe now, I just hooked it up to do a backup of the server.

Since you’re building VM’s, try a Debian Etch one and see if it recognizes more of the hardware.

To start your desktop environment, sign on as a regular user, key in startx.

marios · 2006-09-07 18:32:36

hcgtv wrote:

Since you’re building VM’s, try a Debian Etch one and see if it recognizes more of the hardware.

To start your desktop environment, sign on as a regular user, key in startx.

thanks,That’s good to know, The desktop installation finally failed, when I came back.
I was to lazy to write down an estimate of the final disk size amount, which was too small to accomodate the rest of the packages, and allthough I had created a dynamic disk to expand as needed, Parallels won’t let me change the disk size any more.
However starting again now from scratch with Etch.

(Sounded like chinese too me when I first red about it on debian.org)
I like the fact that I can see the download speed right from the console window, when getting packages.

regards, marios

marios · 2006-09-08 19:46:10

After upgrading to Parallels beta 2.2 everything went much better.
For Debian Etch I choose the Expert GUI install,(allows you to make screenshots also of the install routine to provide for later reference) which is a nice improvement to the previous version.
However, it makes more sense to make Host Systems only OS-X/ Linux and
Windows only Guest OSes and clone these right after install for also for Safety and Backup, then also
Various IE versions Browser testing becomes a snap with cloning.

regards, marios

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