Installing Debain on a RAIDed partition

2000-05-08 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Folks, I would like to install my / partition on a mirrored (RAID 1) partition. I know how to do RAID _after_ an install, for user data, but at install time? Any pointers? Thanks

Re: fake packages

2000-05-08 Thread Chris Wagner
Just use --force-depends. It overrides package dependancies. At 12:59 PM 5/7/00 -0600, elyograg wrote: How hard is it to create fake packages? What I'm after is this: A package that will lie to the system with a provides: httpd line or provides: mail-transport-agent or something similar.

Re: Exim Subject rejection, (* **** ***)

2000-05-08 Thread Peter Gervai
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:35:38PM -0700, Kevin wrote: How hard would it be to filter *.vbs attachments out. It was fairly simple to do with NT based MDaemon, but I'm not sure how to go about it with exim or postfix. variation of an exim global filter: if $message_body: contains .vbs\ or

RE: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition

2000-05-08 Thread Robert H. Clugston
Ghane, I suggest using a Hardware RAID. I use ARCOIDE raid 1 controller (www.arcoide.com) on a couple of my machines. It's really easy to use and it's fast. In fact when I started using this product my hard drive usage actually visibly lowered (don't ask me why.) They are supposed to be a

RE: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition

2000-05-08 Thread Gregory Wood
Ghane, I agree with Robert. I would use hardware. However, if all you are doing is mirroring then you should be able to load Linux, then duplicate your drive to the second drive through the RAID software. Sadly, it is a toy that I haven't had time to play with. Gregory Wood ***