DA seems to suck on Debian

[smoked1]

I got a dedicated server and requested DA on debian and I have had nothing but issues. Documentation for debian support is almost non-existent. That's a shame because Debian is my favorite Linux distro. I also can't seem to find a good way to restrict debian packages and that has totally screwed me up. I think that I will have the DC do an OS reload with CentOS and see if that goes any better. I also think that I will tell them not to install DA for me because I think that they may have screwed things up as well. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

[pucky]

Why dont you install DA yourself? Thats what we do. That way you only have one person to blame.

[jlasman]

Pucky, I think that's what he said; he wasn't going to have the datacenter do the DA install.

smoked1, can't you find a config file for apt-get, so you can tell it which programs to not update? It's been a long time since I used apt, but I vaguely remember there was a way to configure it to not do automatic updates of excluded files.

That said, I prefer DA on CentOS (no flames please) because DA is first written on Red Hat; everything else is a port, and you probably won't find as much detailed support for DA on anything else as you do on CentOS.

But that's just my opinion.

Jeff

[smoked1]

I have never used CentOS but it can't be that hard. I tried Redhat 7.2 many years ago and I hated it. Ever since then I have tried to stay away but I'll give it a shot. Damn DC charges 50.00 for an OS reload though.

[jlasman]

smoked1, earlier today I posted this link (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/53089-how-exclude-some-packages-during-apt-get-upgrade.html), which may help you figure out how to exclude from apt-get.

Jeff

[smoked1]

Yeah, I am playing with that now.

[smoked1]

Well, I was able to get CentOS installed but now DA won't even install. I'm about an inch away from trying cpanel.

[jlasman]

Your DA license is OS specific; you need to contact sales to have them change it for you.

Jeff

[smoked1]

Thanks. I got my license updated and DirectAdmin is running strong on my new CentOS box.