I just mailed this to Jack. People are probably mostly after the Debian-ised `newvserver' script. (Based on Mark Lawrence's code).
This installs Debian straight off the web from Debian.org's world-wide network of mirrors. (apt-get rules doesn't it!). I'm interested in feedback. This should work on *.RPM with the installation of "debootstrap.rpm", the Debian bootstrap program. (see below) Other people with distribution specific scripts may like to look at this newvserver, as it includes quite a few extra things such as randomizing `crontab', to prevent the major disk-thrash when 100 vservers all decide to run `updatedb' at 06:23am in the morning! This is a `newvserver' for Debian woody. http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/debian/debian-newvserver.sh See `--help' for the rest of the options. For example: % debian-newvserver --hostname tubby --domain sploge.com --ip 10.1.2.3 On an RPM host, you need the alien'ed package of `debootstrap' (newvserver will tell you the canonical URL to download it from if it doesn't find it): http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/debian/debootstrap-0.1.17.3-2.i386.rpm There's also an optional patch to `vserver' which fixes `screen' and `mesg' by detecting Debian and setgid-mounting `devpts' with the gid parameters from `/etc/defaults/devpts'--if it finds it in the vserver. (not required). http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/debian/vserver-0.21-debian.patch Enjoy. I'm interested in feedback, tell me if it breaks! -Paul -- Nottingham, GB
