Re: moRe: are the directors firewalled?

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:56:25AM -0800, Rick Graves wrote:
> In general, there is big emphasis on applying updates
> to installed software.  Does that not apply to
> directors running Sarge?

Your problem is that Debian stable is not sarge any more - it is
now etch. Sarge is old and goes out of maintenance at Easter 2008.

So when your sarge install CD tries to download stuff from stable
it's going to get confused and try and install half the stuff from
etch. The good thing about Debian is that you _can_ install sarge
and then upgrade it to etch without a reinstall. The bad thing is
that the middle of an install is not the best place to be doing
it ;-).

> It eventually gets to a message that I am attempting to remove
> the kernel version that I am using.  The message says this is
> dangerous and recommends against doing this unless I know what
> I am doing and I am prepared to hose my system.  Since I do
> not know what I am doing and I do not want to hose this
> install, I answer "No". Then there are some unmet dependency
> error messages.

If this is a machine you just installed specially for this task,
then say yes anyway. I've not had this "dangerous" task fail in
several years now, though it _is_ inherently "dangerous". The
worst you'll have to do is to wipe and install again.

Your best option would be to get an up-to-date etch CD. The
ldirectord and heartbeat packages are more recent in etch, and
everything should run more smoothly. I actually had to use the
etch versions of ldirectord/heartbeat on sarge until I upgraded
the directors here - moving to etch makes things much simpler.

If you really can't get an etch CD, install sarge but don't let it
try and update at the end of the install procedure. You can
somehow, but I'm afraid I can't remember exactly how (maybe try
the "specify the apt sources manually" and then leaving the file
blank). After the install, follow the instructions on the debian
site to upgrade to etch.

When you've got etch installed you want to install the heartbeat-2
and ldirectord-2 packages with something like

  aptitude install heartbeat-2 ldirectord-2

Hope that helps,

Matthew


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