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Upgrading from woody to sarge



Hello,

I was really happy to see last 3rd of may that Sarge got frozen. Woody became a little bit too old for hosting I think, I needed the features of Sarge. I was wondering if some of you did some try upgrading from woody to sarge with RAID1 software setup. I've planed to do it on all my servers (currently maybe 10 in different locations) as soon as I did some successful tests, and there is security support from Debian team.

Also, there is no support for qmail anymore. It's a shame, even I support Postfix thanks to Damien Mascord work, I still want to keep qmail. I like the way it works, and that's it. Does the old qmail-src package for woody work well under Sarge? It seems to have dependency problems last time I checked, so I gave up and installed Postfix2. If some of you want to try to maintain an unofficial qmail-src package, I'm one of them. Currently, I have a nice qmail + rbl + spp (spf + mfdnscheck), and I wont drop it.

Also, it's to be checked, but it seems that when installing a Sarge with raid setup, it doesn't setup grub to write the mbr on BOTH drives (it seems it's only writing on hd0). Am I right on that point? Is that something I'll have to add manually, or did I miss something in the installer?

Last time I tried (few month ago), on my laptop, I had problems with boot loader setup (it wouldn't boot), I think I missed one point, but I can't remember which one. Any hint?

Thomas

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