Revision of Setting up Centos 5 for Drupal 6 on Dell Poweredge sc420 from Sun, 06/07/2009 - 15:19

Primary Goal: Create an, as close to stock as possible, LAMP stack to support Drupal 6 development.
Secondary goal: File Server for small in home network (~6 computers) for OSX, Windows and *unix

Installed Centos 5 by following this http://linux.duke.edu/dist/centos-5/install.ptml

screen shifting with default video driver
- switched to generic vesa

Upgraded packages with Yum
- From Terminal "Yum update"

Centos 5 ships with PHP 5.1.6
Drupal 6 does not require PHP 5.2 but many contributed modules do.
- install PHP 5.2 by following this http://www.freshblurbs.com/install-php-5-2-centos-5-2-using-yum

Partitioned, formatted and mounted data drive by following this http://www.skullbox.net/newsda.php

Configured Apache using system/administration/server settings/http
- added server name

Installed flash player
- yum install flash-plugin.i386