Upgrades upgrades upgrades

VMware has finally released version 2.0.0 of their free server product. Since I am running a total of four VMware servers (one for testing on my laptop, one semi-test on my workstation, which also stores my template images, and two “production” servers), I have been going through the Waltz of the Upgrade. I upgraded defiant, danube and prometheus, but decided that lexington, my backup- and sole remaining 1.0.x vmware server, needed a little extra love. I set this box up almost 3 years ago, before disk encryption was available easily in Linux. I went back and encrypted /var/lib/backuppc directory, so the backups were encrypted, but never got around to encrypting the rest of the system.

Since I am working on getting Reasonably Secure Builds together and will be walking through a Debian build with an encrypted filesystem, and since I needed to upgrade vmware, I decided to do the full upgrade on lexington and get it up to scratch. I actually used the latest Lenny daily build of the Netinst CD, and it was nice. It is basically the same as I have always done, except for the fact that they have replaced the lilo command line prompt on the burst page with a dialog-like menu to give you your options.

I really want to get it running again, so that I can play with Untangle. It looks like a very cool product, and lexington has enough filesystem space for me to evaluate it.

More on my progress with Untangle. In fact, if things work out with it, expect an AP episode on it, somewhere in the firewalling eposodes.