Lenz Grimmer's blog (Entries tagged as installation)

Updating the BIOS on my ThinkPad T440 without Windows or a DVD-Drive

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:18:22 +0200

Drupal 7 test drive appliance updated to 7.0-beta2, now with GUI option

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:18:01 +0200

Testing Drupal 7 on a virtual appliance with MySQL 5.1 and the InnoDB plugin

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:37:18 +0200

Building MySQL Server with CMake on Linux/Unix

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:26 +0100

Installing VirtualBox on OpenSolaris 2008.11 with Package Manager

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:34:54 +0100

Adding multimedia support to OpenSolaris

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:10:27 +0100

Running Drupal 6 on MySQL 6 using the Falcon Storage Engine

nospam@example.com (Lenz Grimmer) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:22:31 +0200

This article describes how to install the Drupal 6.2 CMS on MySQL 6.0, using the Falcon Storage Engine. The operating system is a default Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" (x86) installation.

I will make a few assumptions here, in order to keep the instructions simple: a fresh OS install, no other MySQL databases or web services are running or have already been installed. Both MySQL and the web server are installed on the same host. You should be able to become root to install packages and to have access to the local file system and the system configuration.

This article will explain how to install and configure Apache/PHP, MySQL 6.0 and Drupal 6.2.

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