I didn’t realize that Debian’s latest release would eclipse Etch, and remove most every reference to the old installer structure from the main servers and mirrors. It’s only really important to weird people like me, who consider the floppy installers to be an excellent tool.

Debian Etch has been discontinued for a while now, and in an ideal world everyone has upgraded to lenny a long time ago. Still, this is not always possible and there are some systems out there that are still running etch, some for a good reason, some just because their admins are lazy

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated: The Debian project is pleased to announce the ninth and final update of its oldstable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename “etch”).

At my place of employment, we just finished our debian upgrades. Overall I have huge respect for debian and the apt package tool. Overall the migration from etch to lenny across several servers was easy, except for one back.

Debian Etch is soon to be unsupported by the Debian team, there for all Debian Linux Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny, I work for Netzen (an IT Support company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the past month, So I am providing this guide on how to upgrade [...]

Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be terminated on February 15th

I had the most difficulty with slightly older Debian (Etch) based hosts using Stable – as you might expect, these have older packages, some of which prove to be difficult when working with newer revisions of Rails and when using Github.

This post shows you how to install the Adobe Flash Player, formerly known as the Macromedia Flash Player, on Debian systems

Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 98% of Internet users.

Here is a step by step summary of what I did to get to get Redmine up and running on Debian 5.x – If you don’t know what Redmine is, it is like Trac, but better and on Rails.

If you run Etch you will want to use backport.org

It look like that to upgrade from Debian 3.1 to 4.0 should be fairly easy; however, the truth is that you will somehow trap by “libc6″ loop. Here is a note to solve the problem.

This tutorial shows how you can enable networking in Xen guests (domU) on Hetzner’s DS servers. With the DS servers, you can get a subnet of eight additional IPs (or more) – usually that subnet is different from the subnet that the server’s main IP is from.

Following my prescriptions the company where I work for has bought two hard drives for one of the servers we use for website hosting. The two drives are with capacity of 80GB.

If Ubuntu is based on Testing or is a snapshot of Debian unstable then it should be fine not to actually provide any software other then what is in Ubuntu main and then just have people pull directly from Debian repositories.

I started upgrading some of our Etch boxes to Lenny and this is how i did it. First make sure you have installed all updates for the current debian version you are running in our case debian etch.

Given the regular questions appearing on the forum about using Debian/Ubuntu with EC2 I thought it might be a useful exercise to post a complete HOWTO should people wish to roll their own AMI rather than use my public one.

The following HOWTO will show you exactly how to install the following packages on a Debian Etch or Ubuntu 7.06 system

The pool of usable Linux distros for older hardware is shrinking. For at least the rest of this year, it appears you can still install Etch and make it work well. Everyone has their own ideals, and I’m quite sure you can find fault with mine.

I’m not gonna explain what dns2tcp is, just how to get it running in less than 30 minutes.

I was running a Xen server with Debian Etch as dom0 (Linux 2.6.18-6 with Xen 3.0.3-1 on AMD64) for some time now. Today, I decided to upgrade the dom0 to Debian Lenny (Linux 2.6.26-2 with Xen 3.2.1-2).

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated. The Debian project is pleased to announce the eighth update of its oldstable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename “etch”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

The latest release of Debian 5 comes with an extensive list of software packages and support for 12 different architectures

Unfortunately, iotop requires Python >= 2.5 and a Linux kernel >= 2.6.20 to work, and even if the installation is very simple as presented in my last post, getting it to run on older distributions might not be so easy.

After having brought my wife’s computer from Etch to Lenny already two weeks ago, which as it ran on an almost stock Etch went quite seamlessly, despite the X drivers needed to be reinstalled manually, I also upgraded my T43p to Lenny.

The recent release of DRBD 8.3 now includes The Third Node feature as a freely available component. This document will cover the basics of setting up a third node on a standard Debian Etch installation.

Last week-end, Debian Lenny 5.0 was finally released. I use Debian on most servers I manage at work. A few of them were already using Lenny when it was still the testing branch, but most are still on Debian Etch.

Debian Lenny stable version is finally released and many are curious to upgrade Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. Debian Etch to Debian Lenny Upgrade is not a difficult task, you can easily initiate the live upgrade with bunch of commands.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on a Debian Etch (4.0) system.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated. The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename “etch”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release,along with a few adjustment to serious problems.