Songyu told us that the server computer has the CentOS installed, however, when we actually tried, it had Debian installed rather than CentOS.
Brandon and I were both new to this system. Although I had some AIX and Linux experience from school and my work experience, it didn't help us much.
We were not sure where to start. We had to download the Moodle package first from its website, but we didn't know how we can access the webpage without the Internet browser. So we played around with the system a bit since we thought we have to get familiar with the system first before we actually start to install the Moodle. After a few hours of try, we had no luck, so we asked Songyu if he knew anything. He introduced a man named Thomas, and he helped us for about an hour. With his help, we could successfully download the Moodle package, but there was a problem with the system requirement. Moodle required PHP 5.2.8 and mySQL 5.0.25, but the system had PHP 5.2.3.
We spent another hour to upgrade PHP version and successfully upgraded the PHP, however it complained about the dependencies between the packages, and we couldn't fix that.
After struggling about 5 hours, we had to give up. Since we couldn't figure out how to install on Debian, Songyu suggested formatting the Debian OS and installing CentOS instead. That would make our job start from very scratch, but it might be easier for us to do the work. Also, he originally thought this machine had CentOS and he preferred CentOS installed on the machine for him to use later on.
As a result, we promised to come next day morning with more preparation.
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