On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:27:04PM +1000, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > One of my clients is looking into hosting a server in the USA, since it > costs much less than doing it here in Australia.
For Debian, you have a few options. I hear a lot of good things about Dream Host ( http://www.dreamhost.com ) and they're Debian-based. You can also simply convert a Red Hat installation into a Debian installation. It's a little nervous-making, but doable! With most hosting providers, you can choose the partitioning scheme, so just have a small partition prepared where you can untar an installed system to, chroot to that and run lilo, then make it restart and repurpose the other volumes as you please. I have done this on a server where custom partitioning wasn't an option as well. I simply used the swap partition. I converted the swap to an ext2 filesystem, dropped in a tiny Debian install, restarted with that as the new root and ran fsck from the small install to lay things out the way I wanted on the rest of the drive. When I was done, that tiny partition just became my swap again. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]