touchring <[email protected]> schrieb: > eschwenk wrote: >> >> eschwenk: 'If you have enough Storage (at least I would recommend 2GB >> Flash or a small Hard Disk), you can simply install standard Debian Lenny on >> Soekris.
> Is Debian Lenny better than Voyage Linux? I know the latter is > derived from the earlier. I intend to use Flash. I do not know that since I do not know Voyage Linux. But webmin is in Debian Repository and so it should be possible to get it work without too much Action. Maybe just the Version is a bit outdated, but that should not be a Problem based on your description. >> We did this since the days of Etch on net4801 as well as on >> net5501 using 2,5" Hard Drives or SSDs and a slightly adapted kernel >> Image built with make-kpkg (you can get the working Parameters from >> the soekris wiki) > do you mean Debian Lenny? We have had several Soekris net4801 and net5501 Boxes running Debian Etch and Debian Lenny for years now and did not see any problems at all except some necessary BIOS Updates and broken Power supplies which were of course easy to fix. At this time all new Boxes get Lenny installed. Installation is done just straightforward using PXE Boot, debootstrap and some Skripts to do the fine tuning for our needs. The only thing installed not from Debian repository is the Kernel .deb which itself is built from Debian Kernel Sources by make-kpkg. Those Boxes serve as ADSL and Cable Routers, Firewalls, DNS-Cache, Proxy, SMTP- and IMAP-Server, Fileserver, Printserver and several more special Functions, depending on needs and size of the individual Customer. Management is done completely by SSH from our Office, we only visit the Customer if he wants that or if there is a Hardware Problem. Some of this Boxes are even some 100km away from here. And if one of the boxes reaches its performance limit, we can simply tar up the system, move it to a more powerful machine and just have to replace the hardware settings to get it work there. Oh, and we have some Hope as well that the next Soekris generation may be powerful enough to run some Asterisk Services on it (net5501 seems to be a bit short on CPU Power for this). This would be a perfect fit for small Offices which then could have all communication needs including Internet, E-Mail and Telephone served by one single Box under the Desktop. -- Erhard Schwenk Akkordeonjugend Baden-Württemberg: http://www.akkordeonjugend.de APAYA running System - http://www.apaya.net _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
