Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL and PHP on Mac

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At 10:36 AM +0100 7/2/01, Ryoichi Murata wrote:

> Currently I am designing a Website which uses PHP and MySQL.

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> My questions are:
> 1) Is it the best thing to do if I install Linux on Mac and run MYSQL and
> PHP?

If you have OSX, you can install PHP and MySQL on that for testing 
purposes. There is a tutorial on Webmonkey on how to do that. 
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/16/index3a.html?tw=backend

This is the easiest option.


> 2) If that the case, should I have a separate hard disc from the one which
> has Mac OS,
>   or would it be enough if I create a partition on the same disc?

Well...you will have to be able to start up the Mac from the disk 
that has Linux on it. Then you would use LILO to choose which 
operating system to boot from. So, you will need to essentially 
reformat your booting disk, partition it and re-install both Mac OS 
and Linux on it.

However - if you have a G4 or a faster G3 Mac, the OS X option is way easier.