setting a ruby on rails / ftp / jabber server on an arm cortex a8 machine

Hello i'm quite a newbie in debian, but i use to deploy webservers (ruby on rails) on ubuntu server. I want to install a athome server with ftp, jabber, mail-imap- and ruby on rails services on a cortex a8 computer like this one https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/details/5 512 Mo RAM Do you

Sheevaplug running Debian won't boot after initial apt-get dist-upgrade

I've successfully installed Debian Lenny onto an SD card in my new SheevaPlug and it booted fine. I then followed Martin's instructions for fine detail adjustments (renaming the host, adding ntp, apt-get dist-upgrade etc.) before attempting to re-boot. I did one extra thing, which was to

Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug

John Winters wrote: I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system pre-installed? Yes, that's quite normal. (Although finding it on

Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug

David Given wrote: John Winters wrote: I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system pre-installed? Yes, that's quite normal.

Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug

David Given wrote: The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt won't work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem Worked fine here. -- Raf http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to