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Mark D. Thurston wrote: >On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 12:30 +0100, Kelly Jones wrote: > > >>Have you considered using vmware to run two seperate virtual machines >>on one set of hardware? >> >> >Or even Xen? (Licencing is better I understand) > > I don't think the target machine is going to be up to the job. It's a P3/600 with 256MB RAM. Since all it'll be doing is handling personal web and mail traffic (it's not a commercial machine, it is my own setup), I think it'd be a better use of the limited resources by combining the function of the one installation rather than having two (or three) complete installations running concurrently. >Depending on how much time you have, I would do a fresh reinstall of >debian stable, and set up everything again - it shouldn't take that >long. Securing the server is likely to be the most time intensive part. > >Make sure you've either made a full backup or kept the old disks so >copying of mail and webroot shouldn't be that hard. > >Regards, > >Mark > I will be keeping the old disks around until I am confident that the "new" system is performing as I want it to. Is there any way to list what packages are currently installed on a Debian system, and use those lists again as a means to re-install the relevant packages? Could I simply copy the /etc directory (and relevant other directories) once this is done? Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html