Re: Great Debian experience
Am 19.03.2014 um 15:32 schrieb Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com>:
>
> My latest experience was a new installation of Wheezy in a new box.
> It took me the entire month of January to get the OS and essential
> applications to the point where the machine became usable. Yes it
> works, but so does a Ford model T. For example I wanted to use LVM
> but the attempt broke the installer. I still have not got sound working.
>
> So what is the secret?
Don’t know. Maybe you are thinking too complicated.
The only things I need to care usually are
- maybe the installation needs firmware-nonfree
- choosing German keyboard
- choosing en-utf8
Desktops and laptops get whole disk or whole free space.
Development servers get RAID-1, LVM, XEN.
Production servers get RAID-1(0), LVM, DRBD, XEN.
Then I always do only a base install in the first step.
In the second step I choose a desktop environment (Gnome, or now back to KDE).
Usually everything (sound, wifi, trackpad etc.) works out of the box.
My smallest Debian box is a creditcard sized RaspberryPi, my largest a 2 node cluster, each node having 16 cores, 32 GB, and many VMs on it.
Helmut Wollmersdorfer
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