A postit: After a debootstrap lenny installation on local, use rsync (exclude /proc /sys) onto the stopped VPS on the provider. Changesets resolv.conf network fstab website: http://serversupportforum.de/forum/faqs-anleitungen/6544-howto-debian-auf-vserver-installieren.html

Appunti per l’installazione di Debian Lenny DiskLess Lo scopo e’ di avere delle macchine diskless con la /home e la /usr montate via NFS, mentre il resto e’ montato dall’InitRamFS al boot, quindi in RAM. dhcp server option root-path "/var/tftproot_64/"; # trick from Peter Rundle <peter.rundle@au.interpath.net> if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient" { filename "pxelinux.0"; next-server 192.168.2.8; # Server con il tftpd # NOTE: kernels are specified in boot/pxelinux.

Ok, if you think about upgrade from Debian etch to Lenny and you computer use an INPROCOMM IPN2220 wireless adapter then I suggest you stay with Etch or simply change you old PC. You can find many bugs report in Ubuntu about this topic, in sort windows driver inside ndiswrapper 1.53 and kernel > 2.6.23 stop working. I’ve installed debian lenny with 2.6.26 kernel and then added etch repository to my lenny then installed back 2.

Very Usefull links: http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/9/24/debian-etch-mongrel-clusters-and-surviving-a-reboot http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/495 Problem: Deploy a rails app written in debian lenny (rails 2.1) into this stable web-server (etch) Solution: Put everything inside your lib/vendor rails application (search google about it and good luck). but if you need for some reason a per-server installation insted of a per-application try this: Install “ruby1.8” with all the suggested optional packages Install “ruby1.8-dev libsqlite3-dev libopenssl-ruby build-essential” Download GEM (rubygems-1.2.0.tgz) from http://rubyforge.org/ add your user to group staff and re-login, now you can write inside /usr/local.

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