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My EC2 account was approved today. Just having a quick play with the 'getting started' image. Observations:

- it's running under Xen, using kernel 2.6.16.

- single 2405.448 MHz CPU ("AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 250", 4812.03 BogoMIPS) per box, 1740944 kB (= 1700.14 MB = 1.66 GB) RAM

- single SCSI (SATA?) hard disk with two ext3 partitions and one swap partition: sda1 (/, 9.84 GB), sda2 (/mnt, 146.8 GB), and sda3 (swap, 896.0 MB).

- hdparm -t and hdparm -T results:

/dev/sda2: Timing buffered disk reads: 160 MB in 3.03 seconds = 52.88 MB/sec

/dev/sda2: Timing cached reads: 1692 MB in 2.00 seconds = 845.32 MB/sec

Installing PeopleAggregator

It looks like the 'getting started' image has Apache but no MySQL. There's an FC4 image that has both, though, so I'll try that out.

ec2-run-instances ami-69ae4b00 -k gsg-keypair

ec2-describe-instances

(repeat until it tells you the instance is alive)

ssh -i id_rsa-gsg-keypair root@hostname

rpm -import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY

yum install subversion ImageMagick php-gd php-mysql php-xml

apachectl restart

cd /var/www

rm -rf html

svn checkout http://update.peopleaggregator.org/svn/release/pa .

ln -s web html

chmod a+w /var/www/web/config /var/www/log /var/www/networks /var/www/web/cache /var/www/web/files /var/www/web/sb-files

Now browse to http://hostname and follow the prompts, and finally:

mv /var/www/web/config/local_config.php /var/www/

Now click on 'click here', and it should be going!

For the next few hours (until I terminate the test instance) you'll be able to see my test install at http://domu-12-31-33-00-01-5e.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com/.

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