I’ve read a lot of manuals, how-to’s etc. describing the process of setting a Debian webserver containing the great VHCS2 control panel system. I’ve tried them all, and all were failing for me on several critical points. So i tried to gathered all steps to this one-stop how-to.
First of all, download your debian-etch iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso (for i386 systems only, please visit http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/ for other distributions) and burn your iso to CD-ROM (you can use CDBurnerXP for free, http://www.cdburnerxp.se/).
Startup your server with the CD inserted. When the boot-manager is shown, ENTER. The setup wizard for Debian Etch will start and guide you through the installation procedure of Debian.
Important!:
when asked at software selection choose Standard system only and hit continue
when asked if the GRUB boot loader has to be installed, choose Yes
Next we go on preparing our system for VHCS.
after installation and re-boot, for your sake install the SSH server:
#apt-get install ssh
Now you can log-on from your desktop machine into your fresh debian server by using Putty (and the best of all, copying and pasting parts of this manual directly into your terminal).
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