Re: Noob Question :-/ ....
Slackware 14.0 is available and it also has a small footprint. If you
choose not to install all the bloatware no g.u.i. you can probably end up
with a full command line installation except for emacs in a little under a
hundred meg. If you decide to install emacs, I suggest you do it using
slapt-get since slapt-get will download some of the g.u.i. stuff emacs
uses in terms of libraries. I would have suggested talking arch but that
installation isn't for anyone unless they're really not afraid of the
command line. On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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> .... I am brand new to Debian, have used RH's for about 10 years, SGI & SuSE
> before that, Mandrake before that, ConvexOS before that. I installed
> Squeeze-kfreeBSD on a Socket 939 Opteron server that I recently replaced the
> root drive (which had croaked) on. I like the small memory footprint that the
> *BSD's usually provide, since this machine only has 2 GB of RAM & can't take
> any more. I got everything (base) installed & ssh'ed in as root to look
> around. That box has 2 other drives on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB
> WD. Those are both use ext3 filesystem, left over from the CentOS 5.7 that I
> was running on that box before the root drive died. I tried to mount those
> drives as ext3 drives & I get the following:
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> [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 10:49 AM] 592 # ll /dev/ad*
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 78 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 79 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0s1
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 82 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 83 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4s1
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 85 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4s2
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 86 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4s3
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 88 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad6
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 89 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad6s1
> [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad0s1
> /mnt
> mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device
> [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad6s1
> /mnt
> mount: /dev/ad6s1 : No such device
> [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 595 #
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> Both drives were AOK as of Friday when I poweroff'ed the CentOS rescue disk to
> replace the root drive, so I *think* they are OK. They were recognized during
> the install as ext3 drives. The new root drive is ad4, a 160 GB SATA drive.
> What's going on here ? Isn't the ext3 fs supported under Debian-kfreeBSD ? TIA
> for any clues & happy Veteran's Day.
>
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