Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Yassen Damyanov
Hi all, Couple of years experience with Gentoo but none with Debian. Need to migrate an AMD-64 server running Gentoo Linux to Debian AMD-64. Services: apache2, postfix + filters, ftp over TLS (vsftpd or proftpd), IMAPS (Courier-IMAP) SVN Hardware: Motherboard MSI K8MM, VIA K8M800 chip

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10301 March 1977, Yassen Damyanov wrote: > Couple of years experience with Gentoo but none with Debian. Need to > migrate an AMD-64 server running Gentoo Linux to Debian AMD-64. > Services: > apache2, > postfix + filters, > ftp over TLS (vsftpd or proftpd), > IMAPS (Courier-IMAP) > SV

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:24 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10301 March 1977, Yassen Damyanov wrote: > [snip] > > Fresh install of course. > For remote: debootstrap a small thing in a swap partition, reboot in A "small *thing*"?? Would you be a bit more specific? > that, debootstrap the real

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10301 March 1977, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Fresh install of course. >> For remote: debootstrap a small thing in a swap partition, reboot in > A "small *thing*"?? Anything thats needed to boot, start sshd and run another debootstrap. > Would you be a bit more specific? Google has tons of howtos

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:40:57AM +0300, Yassen Damyanov wrote: > Couple of years experience with Gentoo but none with Debian. Need to > migrate an AMD-64 server running Gentoo Linux to Debian AMD-64. > > Services: > apache2, > postfix + filters, > ftp over TLS (vsftpd or proftpd), > IMAP

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 5/26/05, Yassen Damyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Couple of years experience with Gentoo but none with Debian. Need to > migrate an AMD-64 server running Gentoo Linux to Debian AMD-64. Is there a reason for this? I am just asking because I don't see a compelling reason to do so

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Kyuu Eturautti
Yassen Damyanov wrote: Hardware: Motherboard MSI K8MM, VIA K8M800 chipset CPU AMD Athlon 64 Bit 3200+ VIA Rhine network card My questions: (2) Does anyone have / know about positive experience with the hardware above? Yes. Except for a bit of lousy design with the motherboard (a pain to fi

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-26 Thread Yassen Damyanov
Thanks a lot to everybody who responded. Thomas Steffen wrote: On 5/26/05, Yassen Damyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Couple of years experience with Gentoo but none with Debian. Need to migrate an AMD-64 server running Gentoo Linux to Debian AMD-64. Is there a reason for this? I

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64?

2005-05-27 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 5/26/05, Yassen Damyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One single reason -- my boss wants to manage the server via a web based > control panel like syscp (www.syscp.de, > which adds php and mySQL to the services listed) Looks nice. I have not tried php yet, but MySQL works for me. > Excuse m

Re: Migrating a server to Debian amd64? [SOLVED]

2005-05-28 Thread Yassen Damyanov
Thank God, the server at stake now runs a Debian Sarge amd64 base system, rebooted successfully at the first attempt (a very long minute of silence and then it came back -- ahh, sweet!!). Many thanks to the supportive Debian community! I provide here a log of the effort in case someone later fa