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Hello,
For reasons you dont wanna know, this weekend, I had to install a new
hard disk in my most recent workstation, moving its own hard disk to
the another workstation, and then move this other workstation hard
disk to my local server.
When doing this last hard disk installation, on the server, I was dumb
enough to use parted on /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdd. As result, I
completely erased the system from the server, while I suffered no
data loss, as /home and /var was on /dev/hdb.
Reinstalling the system, I decided to go for sarge directly, as I
expect it be stable in a short time (maybe I am wrong, I hope not).
On my local server, I used some software we use at Gna!. On this
server was running: apache-ssl, openssh, mysql, cvs and rsync through
ssh, nfs-kernel-daemon, courier imaps, exim + spamassassin, dhcpd3,
bind9, lprng, fetchmail.
Everything went smoothly more or less (I reused conffiles from the
previous system, these files being on CVS) apart with apache-ssl.
I was not able to use apache-ssl correctly. To avoid wasting time, I
switched to mod_ssl and had to rewrite a complete set of conffiles
(using the splitted files approach promoted by debian -- which is this
case works, but not as good as you would expect. For instance you
cannot include a directory managed by CVS, the Include system is
stupid enough to try to read CVS specific directory content).
I guess this ssl problem will be posed also on gna servers, using
almost all of them apache-ssl, apart people.gna.org on
maggie. Considering the number of apache servers we have, I expect
this thing to be the tricky part of the migration.
Apart from that, new kernel and stuff runs ok on my local server which
use well known hardware:
Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX]
IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II]
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W
[Millennium II]
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
I picked the kernel 2.6.8-1-386 (no 586tsc found, which have been
appropriate for this Pentium MMX 200). I found no libc6-i586 package
available either. For gna!, I guess 2.6.8-1-686-smp will be a good
choice, unless they release new package -- but base packages are
supposed to be frozen, and I guess that kernel-images are base
packages.
Note: Isn't the Host bridge surname "Triton VX" weird? If VX is not
roman numbers, Triton II on the IDE interface does not make sense. But
if it is, why the hell writing VX instead of V, since 10 - 5 is
definitely equal to 5?
Regards,
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Mathieu Roy
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