RE: [Vserver] vserver gentoo, anyone?

[ian douglas]

  I've never even seen gentoo

 If you don't even know gentoo why do you want to use it in a vserver
 environment?

I'm not allowed to be curious?

I'm currently running RH7.3 and want to switch to another distro by the end
of the year so figure I might as well move to a vserver setup at the same
time... Was just wondering whether anyone had any major problems getting it
up and running. I'm not sure yet about switching to Fedora, and have
downloaded gentoo to tinker with it (I like the fact that you can build it
all from source, I'd think it'd make it far easier to upgrade the system to
newer builds of software if I do everything from source instead of waiting
for others to make RPM files for me.

I'm also eyeballing Debian. I've considered FreeBSD but not sure if the
learning curve of BSD will be too steep to learn PLUS get vserver up and
running before the end of the year.

Thanks for your other notes, I'll definitely keep that on hand.

-id


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[Vserver] vserver gentoo, anyone?

[ian douglas]

Hey all,

I lost my local archive of vserver Emails ... Outlook happily deleted the
entire folder for me and made it happily unrecoverable.

Just curious if anyone's had success installing Linux 'gentoo' as a base and
getting vserver to behave well on it? I'm hoping to play around with it a
little this week.

-id


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RE: [Vserver] vserver gentoo, anyone?

[ian douglas]

 I did a Gentoo virtualization last night and I'm emerge -e world'ing right
 now, if you need to contact me directly, please do, I'd be happy to help
 support you over the phone or any instant message clients.

any 'gtochas' that you care to share up-front?

I've never even seen gentoo, I'm just getting the ISO's onto my system now
to burn CD's to see what the installation is like. A buddy of mine says that
everything compiles from source as part of the installation and took his
system an awfully long time (12+ hours) to get set up on a PIII-1Ghz; is
that about right?

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RE: [Vserver] is there any getting started with vserver documentation anywhere?

[ian douglas]

Considering RedHat's recent press release about discontinuing the RedHat
Linux line in favor of the more expensive enterprise version, I'd really
like a few answers from others (only had one off-list reply) regarding which
operating system is going to be my best bet since I'm going to have to
convert my server to another Linux distro now.

I'll be starting a whole new server to manage everything but curious,
obviously, which distro people have had the most success with other than
RedHat.

Thanks for any help on that, as well as my other unanswered questions.

-id


 I searched the site's documentation and found the multi-page
 this is what it's
 capable of documentation, but didn't see any offhand that answered the
 following questions. I sent them to Jacques, but I'd like to pose
 it to the list
 in general for the 1.0 release so I can get started on vserver in
 the coming
 weeks.

 ---
 Hi Jacques,

 I've been daydreaming about a vserver setup for my system.

 A few things that perhaps would be handy to have in the FAQ:

 - what OS works 'best'? Kernel version is obviously important,
 but it would be
 neat to see some sort of volunteered information from various
 users as to the OS
 and version of that OS, that they have the most success with

 - how does one get started? is it best to start with a totally
 fresh machine and
 build from there, or could I start from a medium-sized virtual
 hosting setup
 using Linuxconf and build a vserver and go from there? I guess
 I'm looking for
 guidance on what should/should not get copied over when building the first
 vserver - once I build the first one, I can just use the vserver
 software to
 duplicate it, but I'm worried about disk space and how to
 actually mount/share
 file system areas...

 - any patched versions of up2date out there? or would I have to
 tell up2date to
 save a copy of the RPM's on the disk somewhere and run the
 vserver rpm utility
 to patch all vservers? If I have 100 vservers, is there a quicker
 way to tell it
 to patch all vservers, or would I have to literally type rpm
 server1 server2
 server3 ... server99 server100 -Uvh *rpm ?

 ---

 Thanks for any additional feedback.
 -id


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