On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 06:33:30AM -0700, dking@pimpsoft.com wrote: > I am attempting to use debian stable as a production server for a > hosting company that is primarily windows based, in a attempt for > them to start supporting the open source community and linux itself, > but am having allot of problems that are only showing the owner that > "windows is in fact the superior operating system, because I would > have had this server up days ago" (his words). > > For the past few weeks, we have reloaded the server several times > since for some strange reason any attempt to upgrade the kernel to a > 2.4.x release from the default 2.2.X install kernel couses it to > either refuse to boot or if it does boot, freeze up the system. > > We need a newer kernel version both for security reasons, and the > fact that the default FD_MAX for the 2.2.x release seems to be 255 > and thus we can get apache to load, it errors out with a error saying > it can not open any more files. > > I run debian (both stable and unstable) on my private network, and I > have never seen this happen before; Im sick and tired of working on > this same server for the past weeks, and I have used only stable > debian standard packages in the installation, I googled and I still > have no idea what is going on or why. > > Has anyone experienced these refusals to boot or the random freezes? > This is the only OS on the computer in question, a 1ghz Intel p3 with > 512 ram, and the first boot did so like a dream under the 2.2.x > kernel, but it was simply too old for the needs of the server. > > I know I am rambling, sorry about that but I have been up for the > past 2 days trying to figure this out, if you have ANY input at all > please do so, I am stumped and this is really making linux look bad > compared to windows in a server environment, and I think I hate that Hi dking, have you tried using the new debian installer at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer Try the 100mb base install. Maybe try all 3 to see which installs. or have you tried to use Knoppix as a way to diagnose what the problem is? http://www.knoppix.com -Kev
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