Re: Debian vs Ubuntu for Enterprise Production Servers
I've mainly stuck with Debian as I've figured my way around it, having been using it since slink, and experimenting more since potato going to sid at some stage during this period. However I did try out Ubuntu once or twice when KDE 3.5 was yet to hit sid and was a bit disappointed that a few issues crept into the stable release, kmail having no pgp support compiled in, the problem was fixed pretty quickly though. A friend of mine also had the apt.sources for breezy on a clean install of Dapper which caused a bit of confusion till I helped him figure out what was happening. These issues would make me personally lean toward Debian for a server install, but I'm already pretty biased. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA/usb mass storage conflict
I have tried installing the amd64 port and I was able to install and configure the base system once but after this it times out when checking the partitions on the drive ( i.e. /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/etc. p1 p2 p5 etc.) on reboot. I've also tried rerunning the installer and it times out at loading sd_mod. After much frustration I gave up on the installer and tried the installer from fedora core 2 for amd64 thinking I might be able to try with a different kernel and it was freezing when loading the usb mass storage drivers ( I have a usb flash reader installed instead of a floppy). Disabling usb allows me to boot the fedora core installer but still not the debian installer ( hanging at sd_mod) and of course the initrd image on the hd is loading the usb mass storage drivers and failing with the same time out as before. Is there a simple way to remove the drivers for usbms from the initrd image while using the fc rescue disk? Has anyone had similar experiences? I'm assuming the sata drives and the usb drives are fighting over /dev/sda, if I were to create a kernel image with the sata drivers compiled in statically and the usbms loaded as a module later do people think it will still conflict?
