installing hostgis

[Kenton Williams]

Hello,

I installed both version 3.5 and 3.6 on a test server I use.  I didn't try to install it alongside anything else - I just formatted the hard drive since it's a test machine.  I found the installation very quick and it worked great immediately. 
Version 3.6 is definitely an improvement (PHP5 included), although my computer's CD drive wouldn't boot off of the CD created from the downloadable ISO.  I ended up needing to make a boot floppy to install it, which isn't difficult.  My test server
is a very odd machine that many distros don't work well on (because of their GUIs).  While I have abandoned HGL for the time being for Fedora Core 5, if I were setting up a dedicated internet map server where a GUI is not wanted, I'd definitely go
for HostGIS Linux.  I did want a GUI so I could fiddle with other software like QGIS and GRASS, hence the switch.

Kenton W.