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I'm getting ready to perform a major server upgrade on my home server, a complete format and reinstall of a newer Linux operating system. Going from Debian unstable to FC5, 2.6 kernel w00t. (about time I do this )

I hope I wont regret moving away from debian, but they are so behind kernal-wise. Their current release is still at 2.4 last time I checked. But I will miss apt-get. And I dont think I ever seen yum actually work, and RPMs always have over 10 dependancies. (and those dependancies have 10 dependancies, and so on...)


Anyway, this is a huge upgrade, this server controlls every local service in my home, from DNS, file, and email, and also manages the news on this site, and the custom program in place for the news will most likely have to be recompiled to work on FC5, and reconfigured. I may even dump procmail (mail system that is a "in between" the MTA and the news software) and go with maildrop which is better. And this is my smallest priority.. well ironicly it falls in my biggest: email, I want to get that up and running asap, so it will involve getting procmail or maildrop configured anyway.

What sucks is I need to go to this wedding tomorow to do the sound system, so this will greatly delay this upgrade, but at least I get monday off which may help me a lot. Been waiting for a long weekend to do this upgrade and here it is.


So anyway, news might be down for a few days. I figure this will take a few hours, but you know how these IT things go, it always takes longer then you think.

I also want to install GSX server on that box, that should be interesting...


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LOL-Probably----WEEKS!



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Well I just found out I was a retard when I built that server. No freaken DVD-ROM drive in it... I cant even install linux now until I get a DVD ROM drive, and all stores are closed at this time. Hmm unless staples is actually open this late lol, but I doubt it.

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If your gonna buy a drive buy an external one that can burn

This way you can take it on service calls & make backups before you screw up the customers PCs.

OR just take a cd out of another pc temporarily.

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lol about 5% of customer machines would even support booting off USB, or even have USB ports. I realized the backup server has a DVD drive i should of grabbed that one so I can install it. I just took the black one out of the test server for now, but its black and the server is beige so I dont want to install it permanently. I'll put it back in the test server and get a beige drive asap for the main server. What a mess I got myself into. Switching all these things around.

FC5 is installing right now, was quite the adventure trying to get through the install without a mouse, since it would not pickup the mouse. Hopefully the install goes smooth, does not format drives I dont want it to, and that I can go to bed knowing tomorow I just need to configure stuff. (thats where the real problems can begin, hence why I'll leave it for tomorow. ) But everything will be preinstalled so there wont be much to it. Think I'll have to install procmail, and any custom software I had, and thats about it. Rest involves restoring flat files from backups to replace config files.

Then I'll order another 300Gig drive so I can put the GSX vmkd files on it as I plan to install GSX server on that box so I can run windows 2003 as well.

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Red Squirrel wrote: Well I just found out I was a retard when I built that server. No freaken DVD-ROM drive in it... I cant even install linux now until I get a DVD ROM drive, and all stores are closed at this time. Hmm unless staples is actually open this late lol, but I doubt it.

lol oops. And staples closes at 9 in the summertime.

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Yeah I actually did call, I figured "what if" since I was ready to go take my bike there at 11:30 lol.

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4 old cd roms and 1 old cd writer - $10

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Reply to: sale-177235014@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-06-30, 5:05PM CDT


Doing some cleaning, and these showed up.
The cd writer pictured on top is 12x/8x/32x.
The fastest cdrom is 56x.
$10 TAKES THEM ALL




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Well email works to a certain extent. Still some stuff to tweak. procmail is being stupid and not generating a log, so I'm blindingly trying to figure out why the news portion is not working.

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I can confirm there's a linux version of that program, and it works better in linux too.

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News should be posted again now. Not sure if today's news is just a backlog of my manual testing or if it was automatic, but we'll see for sure tomorow.

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