I'm rebuilding to bring the server services more in line with what I'm doing now, and to clean up some left over crap from an attempt to get X/KDE installed for remote terminals - never did get it working, but it's not needed and have you ever seen how much stuff you have to do to completly remove X from a box? These two points justify the rebuild for me.
I don't have an extra box at this time (the server in question is a PII-400, whereas my workstation is an AMD Duron and runs Suse desktop). Compiling the kernel itself isn't really that big a deal, but it's getting the drive partitioned right (I want to move my /home to a separate partition - it's currently just a directory on the / partition), as well as get the environment setup and installing/compiling the services I need (with new/correct USE flags) that is the time consuming part. Yes, I'm planning on 2-3 days for Gentoo compilations. I can probably drop that to a couple hours if I do a binary install with it, then recompile things after installation. But I like the idea of a stage one install where EVERYTHING is optimized for my server right from the outset. (guess I'm a little stubborn, but I might reconsider this point.) Thanks for the response and ideas. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Kent Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:47 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Server Rebuild On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:31, Shawn Grover wrote: > Hi gang. > > I'm will be rebuilding my server soon, and am looking for ideas on how to minimize > my down time. > Are you rebuilding to upgrade hardware or operating system? I'm assuming OS. > It's a Gentoo server (if that helps). I considered maybe just putting a different > hard drive in the box as a slave, then partitioning it and chrooting to that drive > and run my installs there, then when ready, make the new drive the primary. Is this > feasible? Is there a better way? Is there a way I can do this without requiring a > second drive? If need be, I am willing to just wipe my current drive and start with > a new install, but this will result in approx 2 or 3 days of being down. > Interesting. If you have a spare hard drive and computer of somewhat similar internals you could just build up your drive locally, configure it as best you can, and swap them out. You could even precompile your kernel to the proper arch as the new hardware, just to have it ready. They'll be some bits and pieces leftover depending on how thorough you were in mirroring the configurations, but it's not too bad. Is the 2-3 days you mentioned for a new install from Gentoo compiling? I think you can guess what my next suggestion will be if downtime is a serious consideration. > Thanks for any tips or suggestions. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
