On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:19:00AM -0500, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > Thanks for a generally excellent product. I have had production servers > using Woody up for several months now with no unplanned downtime except for > one box which experienced multiple kernel panics which I traced to a flaky > hard drive controller on the mobo. > > On these installations, I was training a new assistant who commented > favorably > on how much easier dselect was over Red Hat rpm. > > Now for the details: > > Hardware: > > - AOpen AK77 mobo > - AMD Duron 1000 CPU > - 256 ECC PC2100 SDRAM > - Seagate Barracuda 40GB HD > - 3 Intel Pro 100/S Desktop NICs > - ATI XPERT 98 8MB AGP video card > > Configuration Notes: > > We built 2 of these to be Linux Virtual Server load balancers for an Apache > cluster using the 2.4.18 bf 2.4 floppies using ReiserFS. Installed the > base system via HTTP. On reboot set it up with shadow MD5 passwords, > skipped tasksel and went straight into dselect. Which version of the boot-floppies were you using, 3.0.22 or 3.0.23? > Problems: > > 1) When I went to initialize and mount partitions from the menu and I > specified ReiserFS as the filesystem, an error message saying the > mount failed appeared on the screen. Were there any diagnostic messages on the third virtual console? > However, the installer should > have asked questions relationg to bad block scanning option and the > ReiserFS -notail mount option and it did not ask these questions. Please file a wishlist bug against the boot-floppies requesting these features. > 2) /apt/get/sources.list somehow ended up pointing to Debian stable; > while I was easily able to select multiple distribution mirrors on > both installations, neither I nor my assistant noticed an obvious way > to select the distribution we were after. Our corrective lenses could > have been dirty though :) > > I worked around this by logging in at the second console with > Ctrl+Alt+F2, and editing /etc/apt/sources.list with vi. This file is created by base-config, but it relies on the value in /root/dbootstrap_settings. What was SUITE set to in this file? Matt
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