Debian on VDS guide
Matt Smith has very handily also written a guide for installing Debian on our VDS service, which is particularly helpful for end users running Windows on their local machine.
Matt Smith has very handily also written a guide for installing Debian on our VDS service, which is particularly helpful for end users running Windows on their local machine.
One of our braver customers who wishes to remain anonymous has been trying out NetBSD on our KVM based virtual server platform. This is unsupported but he’s written us the following advice that any future customers might appreciate.
Firstly, the default network device is not going to work under NetBSD, so running netdev rtl8139 before installing is needed. Because of the default realtek driver in NetBSD, the install will be a bit choppy - recommended pulling packages from CD instead of network. After that recompiling the kernel is needed, with 2 modifications. I've based my config on GENERIC, so simply copying the GENERIC config file and commenting out the re* driver. This will make the kernel use the older rtk driver, which will work. Mind that /etc/ifconfig.re0 will need to be copied to /etc/ifconfig.rtk0 to make sure it comes up with network enabled after boot. Just find the line starting with re* and comment it out. Before recompiling, edit /usr/src/sys/netinet/if_arp.c and lookup the line matching "arp info overwritten". Simply delete the line (3 lines in total ending ";") as having this being logged is a nuisance as your router IP keeps changing between interfaces (so arp table is constantly updating).
NetBSD isn’t an officially supported distribution as we have minimal direct experience with it, but if you’re happy to support yourself we hope this helps you get set up.
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