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Hit me up if you need any help, I've been doing this for a long time. Debian is usually chosen by people who don't trust a company to start messing around with stuff. Ubuntu (owned by Canonical) has a tendency to go off on tangents of "not invented here", add new things that only Ubuntu uses and then drop them a few years later. This has usually been on the desktop but has also started affecting their server offering. Debian install is pretty straight forward if you don't move away from the defaults. In your case the defaults will be fine. Something like this should guide you through to getting a running system. I assume its going to be connected to a local network even if internet access is flaky. So you'll need to know a little bit about how that is setup. Hopefully your IT facility can help with this. You'll need an IP, gateway address and DNS servers. By default the installer will use DHCP to get an address, but as you're setting a server up you'll be wanting a static IP, or at least having the same IP allocated each time you reboot. You'll also be wanting an entry in DNS for your server, koha. I guess. Again the IT dept should be able to do this. Getting this bit done is often the hardest as you're dealing with people instead of a nice easy to use installer. Once its up and running the instructions in the koha docs look thorough enough to get koha and the other bits and piece installed and talking to each other. There's nothing really complicated about any of this, common sense and google can get you through. Of course if you do get it up and running and library staff start adding data you need to start worrying about dull but important stuff like backups and monitoring. Thats a whole different thing |
