Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:54, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any up-to-date "State of the RAID Nation" statement? I'd hate > to start digging into RAID code only to find that RAID Mk.2 was going to > replace everything I'd been looking at. Not that I'm aware of. The only change

Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread shift
Hej till alla Is it possible to define with some accuracy the needs of ISPs? Some list of all the components in a Debian that are absolutely necessary for the ISP work. Is it possible to compose a custom ISP Debian? or custom ISP debians (different flavours: mail specific, routage-specific, host

SV: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Christofer Algotsson
> Is it possible to define with some accuracy the needs of ISPs? Some > list of all the components in a Debian that are absolutely necessary > for the ISP work. Is it possible to compose a custom ISP Debian? or I.e compose your own debian-distribution? I'd install base-system and dpkg --get-sel

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread shift
That's what I am actually doing :) Base system then dpkg... But what I'd like to do is something different. Thinking maybe of a an ISP specific install. Lighter and even more secure. A minimalistic distribution... I don't know if there are other persons interested... mvh shift - Original Mes

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Christian Hammers
On 2004-09-14 shift wrote: > Thinking maybe of a an ISP specific install. Lighter and even more > secure. A minimalistic distribution... Most ISP will probably have different servers for the different services and on each of them they will start with a secure base install with as few software in

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Jonathan G - Mailing Lists
Hi, what i used to do is install a base system and then install some of the package packs i've defined. For example, if what i want is install a web server with php % perl support i use a config file what i've defined myself which contains this: apt-get install apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefor

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread shift
Well, it seems to be the best method. But isn't it possible to define a general list of necessary packages used by ISPs and regroup the whole in a minimalistic optimized distribution specificly made for ISP use? And excluding all other packages (desktop, non-necessary libraries, windowing etc...).

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Jonathan G
yep shift, is what i've done. I've been playing with apt-get and apt-cache in order to discover all minimal dependencies por a serie of packages. My procedure is the following: 1. NetInstall or Minimal install using CD1 from Woody 2. Minimal Config 3. Change apt-sources, changing "stable" for "s

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Jonathan G
About this. (comments in line) shift wrote: At my actual knowledge, such a distribution doesn't exist. Should it be interesting or is it only the remanent effects of a very good long week-end? i'm quite interested. :) jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread shift
Well, about the week-end, you're welcome for another one (...) About the install, I do almost the same. the second part is the optimization. Using an optimized distrib on an SR2200 (dual PIII 1.4GHz Tualatin-S), SCSI U160, I have better results on Mysql nemchmarks than with a non-optimized SR2300-

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2004-09-14 shift wrote: > Using an optimized distrib on an SR2200 (dual PIII 1.4GHz Tualatin-S), > SCSI U160, I have better results on Mysql nemchmarks than with a > non-optimized SR2300-SKU0 dual xeon 3.0 1MB L3 cache and SCSI U320!! Sounds very unrealistic. Are you sure that it wasn't

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Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:14:02 +0200, Jonathan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4. apt-get distro-upgrade ..you meant dist-upgrade, or is distro-upgrade different from apt-get dist-upgrade??? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunt

Re: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Jonathan G
Oh no, was a typo, is dist-upgrade :) thanks for the note BR, jonthan Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:14:02 +0200, Jonathan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 4. apt-get distro-upgrade ..you meant dist-upgrade, or is distro-upgrade different from apt-get dist-upgrade??? --

RE: Defining ISP?

2004-09-14 Thread Ben Lisle
> -Original Message- > From: shift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2004 4:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Defining ISP? > > > Hej till alla > > Is it possible to define with some accuracy the needs of ISPs? > Some list of all the components in a Debi