Hi everyone,

Pondering over getting a raq or two for me hosting business (UH Hosting (http://www.uh-hosting.co.uk) so we can offer PHP etc.

Is it easy to install addtional packages? Been reading the sun cobalt site, and theres _alot_ of packages available for the raqs.

Main addtional software we will require will MySQL. It is supported under a raq but how easy is it to install? I have a fair bit of *nix knowledge, but no experience under raq until now.

Im presuming its to do with the rpm installer with the raq (most probably a raq 4 we will be purchasing) that is built in. But how much work so to speak is there to do after that?

Cheers :)

Originally posted by James[UH]
Hi everyone,

Pondering over getting a raq or two for me hosting business (UH Hosting (http://www.uh-hosting.co.uk) so we can offer PHP etc.

Is it easy to install addtional packages? Been reading the sun cobalt site, and theres _alot_ of packages available for the raqs.

Main addtional software we will require will MySQL. It is supported under a raq but how easy is it to install? I have a fair bit of *nix knowledge, but no experience under raq until now.

Im presuming its to do with the rpm installer with the raq (most probably a raq 4 we will be purchasing) that is built in. But how much work so to speak is there to do after that?

Cheers :)

Installation of mySQL on the Cobalt Raq is very easy. There is a .PKG file that you can use that takes about 5 minutes to setup.

Check out: PkgMaster (http://www.pkgmaster.com)

Installation of MySQL is indeed easy.

I would strongly (very strongly) suggest also installing phpMyAdmin to administer MySQL.


http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ )

As per previous post, installing pkg files from pkgmaster etc is simple also.

Good luck whichever way you go.

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Grant Nicholas
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