Re: 7 boxes to debianize
I've found all it takes is 6 floppys (root, rescue, 4 drivers) to
install the freshest debian directly from the network. Of course I have
broadband so that may not work for you but ...
I'd recommend dragging the server to a broadband access point if you
could and getting everything you need and then not deleting the
downloaded debs so you can cache it for the other 6 boxes. There has
been some discussion on the list already about making apt-caches. Just
be sure to get the source and the kernel-package scripts so you can make
custom kernels as deb files.
--mike
On 10 Aug 2001 19:53:45 +0000, joe golden wrote:
> I've got seven boxes to switch over to debian from windows NT in the next
> couple of weeks. I plan to mount /usr and /home NFS.
>
> I have one stormix installation disk. My Debian 3 pack of CDs has a bad
> first CD. Anyone changed a stormix box to straight debian?
>
> As a test I switched /etc/apt/sources.list to point to debian sources on a
> stormix test box. Update from dselect ran fine, but told me i needed nine
> hours to wait for updates. Since I am going to mount /usr NFS i don't
> really need these updates in full. I think I only need one file server box
> with updated /usr programs. On the client boxes I believe i mainly need a
> kernel update (stormix version is 2.2.14, I plan to run 2.2.19) and updates
> to /etc files .
>
> Any ideas on less painful ways to do this? I don't know what the kernel
> version on the latest boxed set of CDs is. I suspect I would need these
> upgrades even if I had straight debian CDs.
>
> Many thanks for any tips, warnings or informed harangues.
>
> Joe Golden
> The Stevens School of Peacham
> thestevensschoolofpeacham.com
>
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