Mondo and Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Christopher Davis
Hello all! I've been switching from Red Hat to Debian the last 6 months and have become very partial to Mondo Rescue -- mondorescue.org for backups. This and Debian do not seem to like each other too much What types of software do you use to run backups on Debian servers to create iso bootab

Re: Mondo and Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Dave Watkins
Christopher Davis wrote: Hello all! I've been switching from Red Hat to Debian the last 6 months and have become very partial to Mondo Rescue -- mondorescue.org for backups. This and Debian do not seem to like each other too much What types of software do you use to run backups on Debian ser

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Joe Emenaker
Nicolas Rueff wrote: Anyway, my question is what software do most of you use? Obviously, we have decided to use Debian for our base os. However, what do most of you use for: 1. Webmail Imp. Works well. Really. I've had a lot of headaches with Imp. Imp relies on Horde being correctly set

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:35, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a lot of headaches with Imp. Imp relies on Horde being > correctly setup. It seems that, every time I do an update of my packages > to the latest .deb's, Imp and Horde break. I have to completely purge > it, and re-instal

Re: Mondo and Debian

2004-02-22 Thread John Keimel
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:14:29AM -0500, Christopher Davis wrote: > I've been switching from Red Hat to Debian the last 6 months > and have become very partial to Mondo Rescue -- > mondorescue.org for backups. This and Debian do not seem to > like each other too much > > What types of softwa

RE: Mondo and Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Christopher Davis
Dave: > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 5:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mondo and Debian > > > Christopher Davis wrote: > > >Hello all! > > > >I've been switching from Red Hat to Debi

How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-22 Thread sarwat0brcm
Hi, What are you guys using to deploy new systems. In our env we are bringing up one system every other week. So far, we've been using Red Hat and Kickstart. We simply save the config on a floppy then boot from the CD and a few minutes later the system is ready without the endless Yes/No questi

Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Loftis
FAI is what we're using. mondo does work on debian, but you gotta make sure you dont' do anything 'dumb' -- its not super robust int he face of errors during image creation. --On Sunday, February 22, 2004 20:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What are you guys using to deploy new systems.

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Jose Alberto
Nicolas Rueff wrote: Ainsi parla Chris Hoover le 52ème jour de l'an 2004: Me and some friends are looking into starting a local isp. My friends are networking experts with some linux experience and I am the linux expert with some networking experience. Anyway, my question is what software do mos

RE: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-22 Thread Christopher Davis
Michael: > -Original Message- > From: Michael Loftis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 9:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How do you deploy a new system ? > > > FAI is what we're using. mondo does work on > debian, but you gotta

RE: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Loftis
et the latest available stable from http://mondorescue.org/ -- make sure you satisfy its reqs, bzip2, afio, *NEWER* version of cdrecord (RH boxes have HUGE problems there), and some others i know i'm forgetting. There really isn't much of a trick to it. It doesn't do a great job looking at

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:38:47PM -0600, Jose Alberto wrote: > > Plus, it may be good to have reiserfs and some sort of volume > management layer (ie. LVM) preferably on hardware raid, to quickly Strange as it sounds, but I've noticed that LVM (kernel 2.4.22) also increased performance wrt re