Creating a Debian server for a small non-profit

Installation

• Boot from Debian sarge netinst CD
• Configure disks as follows:
  • 2 disks - both masters on their controllers (assuming ATA)
  • 1 Gb ext3 /boot RAID1
  • The rest of the disks as a single RAID1 partition given to LVM
  • Create a volume group called vg00
  • Create logical volumes:
    • 4 Gb swap
    • 3 Gb reiserfs /
    • 8 Gb reiserfs /var
    • any additional space should be allocated to appropriate data volumes like /home
• When you install the system, don't choose any software sets.  Read More: