Thanks for a generally excellent product. I have had production servers using
Woody up for several months now with no unplanned downtime except for one box
which experienced multiple kernel panics which I traced to a flaky hard drive
controller on the mobo.
On these installations, I was training a new assistant who commented favorably
on how much easier dselect was over Red Hat rpm.
Now for the details:
Hardware:
- AOpen AK77 mobo
- AMD Duron 1000 CPU
- 256 ECC PC2100 SDRAM
- Seagate Barracuda 40GB HD
- 3 Intel Pro 100/S Desktop NICs
- ATI XPERT 98 8MB AGP video card
Configuration Notes:
We built 2 of these to be Linux Virtual Server load balancers for an Apache
cluster using the 2.4.18 bf 2.4 floppies using ReiserFS. Installed the base
system via HTTP. On reboot set it up with shadow MD5 passwords, skipped
tasksel and went straight into dselect.
Problems:
1) When I went to initialize and mount partitions from the menu and I
specified ReiserFS as the filesystem, an error message saying the
mount failed appeared on the screen. However, the installer should
have asked questions relationg to bad block scanning option and the
ReiserFS -notail mount option and it did not ask these questions.
I was able to initialize my partitions using the console and the
mkreiserfs command just fine, and the "Mount a previously initialized
partition" menu command from the installed worked just fine.
2) /apt/get/sources.list somehow ended up pointing to Debian stable;
while I was easily able to select multiple distribution mirrors on
both installations, neither I nor my assistant noticed an obvious way
to select the distribution we were after. Our corrective lenses could
have been dirty though :)
I worked around this by logging in at the second console with
Ctrl+Alt+F2, and editing /etc/apt/sources.list with vi.
Post-installation issues:
None.
After installation, I compiled and installed custom kernels on both boxes
patched with the LIDS, preempt, and LVS patchsets downloaded from Debian
using make-kpkg and dpkg. No hassles at all here.
I consider these successful installs for now.
--
Christopher L. Everett
Chief Technology Officer
The Medical Banner Exchange
Physicians Employment on the Internet
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