Installing P5KPL-CM network drivers on CentOS 5.4
Once CentOS was installed, the first thing I had to do to make the server useful was to build and install the network drivers for myASUS P5KPL-CM Motherboard. Here's how to do it:
First, you're going to need the LinuxDrivers zip file. You'll need to unzip and then unrar l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4.rar (found in the LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan directory in the zip). I had to do this on my Windows PC since I couldn't install unrar on the server (no network, remember?)
Once you're transfered the contents of l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4.rar to the server, follow these steps:
Server Specs
This a post from the old setup... but the server is still the same. There was a note about forgetting how I installed ReviewBoard, and how much of a pain in the ass it was - I havn't done that yet... OH BOY!
Here's the original post, minus the ReviewBoard comment:
Someone asked me last week what the specs of the server I put together were. Here’s the low down
Starting Fresh
Over the course of the last week as I've been moving all of my sites (along with a couple family member sites) over to my server, I've noticed that I really screwed up when it came to configuring this server. No amount of hackery was giving me the options that I needed so I decided to reformat, install the new CentOS, and follow a pretty good guide on setting up a webserver. It went pretty smoothly, and took around 6 hours! haha... Anyway, I changed a few things and now I finally plan on documenting everything that I do on this server so that I don't forget anything. Luckily I had remembered to back up the network drivers, but I did forget how to make postfix forward all mails through sendmail. Perhaps I'll document that first.