Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:18:10AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Lee Whalen wrote: > > Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. > > Welcome to the last OS you'll ever need X-) > > > So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etc

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Lee Whalen wrote: > Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. Welcome to the last OS you'll ever need X-) > So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is > already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Lee Whalen wrote: > so I am tasked with migrating all of our HeadRat servers over to > Debian. > > My big question is, does Debian work with the Adaptec SATA HostRAID > controller that this IBM eServer x206 box has on it? Etch may. Make an install

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Kent West
Lee Whalen wrote: My big question is, does Debian work with the Adaptec SATA HostRAID controller that this IBM eServer x206 box has on it? I dunno, but ... does that sound feasible, or am I doing far, far too much work? Sounds good to me. You mention a LiveCD; if you can boot the box off a De

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 09 November 2006 12:34, Lee Whalen wrote: >Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. So, > I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is > already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server (RHEL 3.0 Typhoon 6), > running a few production a

IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Lee Whalen
Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server (RHEL 3.0 Typhoon 6), running a few production apps (Apache with a handful of VHosts, postfix, a ticketing

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:38, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > 1 fileserver (2x80GB RAID-0) houses user home directories, is the print > > > server > > Using RAID0 for a fileserver like this is very inefficient. If users open > > a small file, both

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > 1 fileserver (2x80GB RAID-0) houses user home directories, is the print > > server > Using RAID0 for a fileserver like this is very inefficient. If users open > a small file, both disks have to read a part of the file. I'd recommend > you to

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > Logically DHCP is its own service. It does not really belong either > place. If you are doubling up on the duty of a machine (which is fine) > then it is your choice where you put it. Put it on the machine running your local dns server. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danc

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:40:08 +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > I have recently taken over as the admin of a small lab at school. The > current admin has graduated and gone off to grad school and today we > spent the day going > over the lab setup. Anyhow, the point is that I d

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-29 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 19:29, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > and VMWare > workstation for each machine (I would need some help for doing this on Debian > since they don't officially support Debian as a distro). You didn't mention which version of VMware. If it's as old as 2.x (like me) I can tell you i

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > -The lab director does not want to pay for support or for RH Enterprise > Workstation, so they setup one RHN account, added all 10 machines and then > rotate the demo entitlement amongst them to be able to run up2date for each > one. I don't know about the Enterprise Work

RH to Debian migration

2003-07-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greetings list, I have recently taken over as the admin of a small lab at school. The current admin has graduated and gone off to grad school and today we spent the day going over the lab setup. Anyhow, the point is that I don't particularly care for the current setup (10 machines running RH 9)