Der Debian-Entwickler Raphael Geissert hat einen neuen Mirror-Redirector für Debian vorgestellt. Die neue Lösung unterstützt neben der Bestimmung des schnellsten Mirrors unter anderem Load-Balancing, parallele Downloads und IPv6.
Written by two Debian developers — Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas — the Debian Administrator's Handbook started as a translation of their French best-seller known as Cahier de l'admin Debian (published by Eyrolles). It's a fantastic resource for all users
Debian was converted to order the boot sequence using the LSB fields in the header of each init.d script. This has removed several bugs in the former boot sequence, and now makes it easier to keep the sequence correct.
I noticed the "4gb seg fixup" error in console/logs. This is the solution that worked for me:
Sometimes, you even want GRUB to boot from the secondary hard disk in case the primary fails to keep the system up and running. This is however not as easy as one might think...