On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:45, John Fleming wrote:
> > That should be right. Up to my laptop which I installed fresh from the
> > new installer
>
> -THANK YOU- to all that have replied to this thread! For my originally
> stated purposes, I am going to try to go with Debian stable. I already have
>
John Fleming wrote:
That should be right. Up to my laptop which I installed fresh from the
new installer
-THANK YOU- to all that have replied to this thread! For my originally
stated purposes, I am going to try to go with Debian stable. I already have
the Knoppix version of Sid on my laptop, so
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:05 am, Adam Aube wrote:
> John Fleming wrote:
> > Several of you have mentioned the "new installer". Can you
> > expand on that? IOW, where is it?
>
> www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> > Is it included with, say, the stable 30r2 CD set?
>
> No. It is the new
John Fleming wrote:
> Several of you have mentioned the "new installer". Can you
> expand on that? IOW, where is it?
www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> Is it included with, say, the stable 30r2 CD set?
No. It is the new installer that will be used with Sarge (the upcoming
stable releas
> That should be right. Up to my laptop which I installed fresh from the
> new installer
-THANK YOU- to all that have replied to this thread! For my originally
stated purposes, I am going to try to go with Debian stable. I already have
the Knoppix version of Sid on my laptop, so I can continue t
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Consider me a newbie, but with enough experience to be dangerous. I started
> learning Linux with RH8.0 about a year ago. I later installed Fedora Core 1
> and have upgraded to FC2, but I'm not happy with the upgrade process (they
>
Lucas Albers wrote:
Read my amazingly detailed and concise writeup on how to convert to a raid
system. http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org.
Lucas:
I just wanted to thank you for a very detailed and extremly helpful raid
howto document. It helped me install raid in no time on my system.
Thanks
Simon Kitching said:
> Personally I would recommend the "testing" distribution. Sid/unstable
> really can be unstable at times. I upgraded last week and lost all
> Stable is really old at the moment - though hopefully a new release will
> be out within a few months. It's really more appropriate t
Simon Kitching wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:10, John Fleming wrote:
Would you recommend I go with Sid, or with testing or stable?
Personally I would recommend the "testing" distribution. Sid/unstable
really can be unstable at times.
Which is fine advice, but be aware that when a problem
> 5. I am interested in software RAID 1 and have 2 identical
> HDDs. Is there
> an option during the install from Debian CDs (didn't see it
> in the Knoppix
> HD install) to setup RAID? If not, any recs on the easiest
> way to get RAID
> 1 going after the initial installation?
As this seems
Yes, I expect to be roundly flamed for this but
Try a hd-install off the Knoppix CD. This will start you off with a
mostly-working if oddball Debian installation. Fonts will not look ugly as
sin. You will have a solid and pleasant start.
After that, configure whatever else needs be done. Th
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On Monday 07 June 2004 8:26 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > Any other comments for this relative newbie that's old (>50) and not a
> > sysadmin by trade? Thanks a bunch for your time!
>
>
John Fleming wrote:
> 1. It sounds like Sid is actually pretty stable, I'm guessing especially
> for the basic mail and webserving things I use. Would you recommend I go
> with Sid, or with testing or stable?
Overall, Sid is rather stable. However, every thread on this topic I have
seen in the
John Fleming wrote:
With my FC2 server (Dell 600SC), I have these things going: pop and
imap mail, Squirrelmail, Mailman, SpamAssassin, Webmin, and Apache
with several virtual hosts.
I've toyed with Debian and Knoppix a bit, but haven't tried to fully
implement the above services yet and have
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:10, John Fleming wrote:
> Consider me a newbie, but with enough experience to be dangerous. I started
> learning Linux with RH8.0 about a year ago. I later installed Fedora Core 1
> and have upgraded to FC2, but I'm not happy with the upgrade process (they
> recommend a f
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Any other comments for this relative newbie that's old (>50) and not a
> sysadmin by trade? Thanks a bunch for your time!
It takes about a month of solid work to get all your hardware and eye
candy working in Sid. Use Knoppix LiveC
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