Notes for a Linux Desktop install - lawrencebillson/parkrun GitHub Wiki

I've been donated a couple of laptops that don't have Windows licenses and have been asked to get parkrunPortable software running on them. This should be pretty easy. For anyone trying to reproduce this (including future-Lawrence), this is what I've done:

• Download the Debian minimal installer and burn it to a CDROM
• Download the Intel wifi drivers and copy them to a USB - for the Dell XPS it came from https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/firmware-iwlwifi/download
• Boot from the CD and follow the 'install' prompts and insert the USB stick
• Follow the prompts
• When asked what software to install, select "gnome", "web server" and "SSH Server"
• Boot into the newly installed OS
• Configure the web server to only respond to 127.0.0.1 - change "Listen 80" to "Listen 127.0.0.1:80" in the /etc/apache2/ports.cfg file
• Add a park.run entry in the /etc/hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1

Things I know I'll need to do:

• Copy the software into the 'cgi' folder - check that it works!