We were all new to this at one point. You should be reading guides as i seriously doubt anyone will spend hours talking you through it step by step and you won't learn a thing that way. If you don't know how to set the server up on your own you certainly won't have the knowledge needed to actually run it trust me on that.
My guides, v2.5 files and databases can be found in my sig or at
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and my sig has a LOT of other good information which is designed for people new to Cabal pservers. Useful download links are also in there.
The first thing you need is a working SQL server with the databases restored. Either 2000 (evaluation) or 2005 Express (free) is fine but if you use 2005 then follow my guide to the letter as a default installation of 2005 is completely wrong for Cabal.
Next you need vmware installed if you don't have a spare computer to install Centos onto. This bit is fairly simple but you need to pay attention to my networking guides as everyone's network connection is different and nobody can just "give you working settings" unless you can tell us you network type, ip address range, netmask, DNS servers and default gateway. My 2 networking guides explain how to work all of this out.
Installing Centos into vmware is very simple. It's just a case of follow the screens shown in the guide and the only "hard" part is knowing what network settings to use for Centos which you should already know from setting vmware up.
Installing the actual Cabal files really couldn't be any easier which is why only the miniguide that comes with the 2.5 repack is needed. My scripts automate almost everything (including working out the right ip addresses) and the only thing you really need to do yourself is enter the MSSQL server connection details.
If you get stuck post in the main section We are happy to help but we aren't doing it for you