Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Derek Broughton]

Eric Dunbar wrote:

> No problem at all. I've built enough things from scratch but I
> honestly don't think I've ever installed from a .deb before... lots of
> .rpms into YellowDog but never .debs into Ubuntu (up to this point
> I've never tried to do anything "real" with Ubuntu... I've mostly
> relied on Synaptic ;-)).

In which case you have been using .debs
> 
> What surprises me is that WebMin is not in the official repositories
> -- it's such a useful program.
> 
> I haven't decided on my partitioning scheme given that I spent the
> whole of 2 seconds deciding upon a partitioning scheme with my current
> server that has haunted me for MORE THAN TWO years.

1 for Windows, 1 for Linux root, 1 for swap, remainder for LVM.

I make the Windows & Linux partitions minimal, then put all the parts of the
Linux filesystem that don't need to be on the root partition in the LVM
(/usr, /var, /home & /tmp - /opt would be there if I had anything in it). 
The LVM is very flexible, so that you're not wedded to it.

If I didn't need to keep the Windows partition just so that I could
demonstrate to Dell that their hardware doesn't work even in the original
config, I'd scrap that, too, and just run Windows in a VMWare disk image.

-- 
derek