Tim Small wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >>>see subject (Debian). I've looked at SuSE though, it seems with their >>>setup RAID and ReiserFS is much easier to handle. >>The upcoming release of Debian will feature MD and LVM device creation >>at install time, but is not yet stable; the current stable release does >>not support either of them. > Sarge is pretty good at the moment (at least I am running production > systems on it, and have been for the last few months) - the disadvantage > of installing a new Woody system now is that security updates for it > will probably stop before it's reached the end of it's useful life. Of Hi Tim, Are you sure? I thought woody will be supported for quite some time. I've been running an updated Debian with a couple self-compiled packages since 1999, upgraded a couple times but woody has been quite pain-less so far. Only the current set up has been messed up a bit so far. I'm planning to use SysCP (www.syscp.de) as a webhosting management interface, which requires woody - for now. It'll probably switch to Sarge when it becomes stable, which is why I don't plan on doing this right now. I was faovouring SuSE because they have more up to date packages (Postfix 2.1, Apache 2.0.49, PHP 4.3.4, MySQL 4.0), and because I wouldn't have to bake my own kernel (I need a couple patches that Debian doesn't supply, most importantly the GRsecurity patch set, and ReiserFS quota and data-logging). But I found that I can get most of the packages via backports.org and dotdeb.net, and that my homebrew 2.4.25 kernel with those patches just runs far too painlessly to give up right now. > course, as it's Debian, you should be able to upgrade to Sarge > relatively painlessly, but I'd probably rather avoid the hassle, and go > straight to Sarge now. I think Debian Installer currently includes > support for installing Sarge directly onto md mirrors (including > handling the boot-loader stuff), but I haven't tried it yet... Might be > worth trying one of the daily builds from: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ The problem here is that I won't ever see the box. It's a rented dedicated server. And the company, they let you choose hardware and distribution and partitioning but then just install the default with enabled "ssh" and let you do the rest. > The disadvantage of installing Sarge yet is that it won't go through the > official security updates until it is released, but in the mean time, > you can pull security-fixes in from unstable (using apt-pinning if you > like) - sounds nasty but it seems to work quite well in practice. Sorry > for getting distribution-centric on the list! This sounds like too much manual intervention to me. I just want the damn thing to run. I'm past the experimenting stage where I compiled half the system myself. :-) -- Jens Benecke http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europas kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale seit 1998 http://www.rb-hosting.de - Webhosting mit Extras - PHP ab €9 - SSH ab €19 http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer, garantiert! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
