Can't see wood for trees

[Tom Marsh]

Hi!

All I need out of my old Duron 900 box is an Apache Server with PHP and 
MySQL for testing purposes and a small intranet. In addition to that 
I'd also like to get a sendmail, external ftp access for the website 
and individual users and SSH as I'll be leaving it in a cupboard 
somewhere. I was attracted to FreeBSD for security and the ports 
upgrade facility - the thought that I would not have to spend hours 
trawling the net for updates and I could just set it to run over night 
was a big plus.

But after a successful install (via FTP) of 5.2.1 I'm really starting 
to think that I'm out of my depth.

make installworld falls over (I followed the manual)
can't get mysql running at all

Would I be better off using the 4.10 tree? In the end all I want is a 
build-it-and-forget box. I can code and script but I haven't got time 
to devout more than a couple of hours a month to this box once its 
running.