LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Move server from SUSE E10 to Slackware 12.2

The time is right now - I'm going to move my server from SUSE Enterprise to Slackware. It is not about that I don't like SUSE, I just like Slackware more.
The main job will be the mail server - I did use postfix and cyrus imap in SUSE with maildirs. Now, I will use Sendmail with imapd and mailboxes. And I want to save my old mails of course. Actually, I will move one old Slackware server to this new as well (up to 40 mailboxes).
There is also difference in the secured smtp and IMAP I used before - in SUSE I used TLS and in Slackware SSL (stunnel). Some of the MUA on the client side I will have to reconfigure.

When I started up my first Slackware server, I did things in which I was not sure that they are done well. And so I started this thread, where I will write the steps that I make.
Please if anybody sees something that is not "how it should be", please comment it. I have the complete weekend (two days) to do this work so I will write continuously the progress.

1. Step

The first step is the setup of the new Slackware 12.2 to my old hardware with two new SATA hard drives. These hard drives will be in RAID 1 - software mirroring.
I created my partitions on /dev/sda - sda1 - 78 GB and sda2 - 2 GB (the swap).
I created my partitions on /dev/sdb - sdb1 - 78 GB and sdb2 - 2 GB (the swap).
I created the /dev/md0 device with

Quote:

mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=mirror --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1

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I used ext3 file system. (If reiserFS or ext2 is better I will use it)
I didn't create any other partitions, I put the complete file system to md0. If there is any reason to put some directories (/boot,/var for example) to separate partitions, please tell - I am ready to do the partitioning process from the beginning again.

Now I start the setup. I will do the default setup process, with all the packages offered. Later, when everything will work, I want to remove any unnecessary package. Optionally recompile the kernel to fit exactly to my hardware.

lets start...

Added 8.8.2009 21:14:

I moved the SUSE server to slackware. I convert the maildirs to mailboxes. I made a oldmails imap folder from which I just moved the mail (by thunderbird) to the inbox.
Now I have my old mails on Slackware.

I created encryption certificates for sendmail and used stunnel for imapd.
I enabled spam blocking by dnsbl.
Used clamav to scan attachments.

The packages I used for my server are now only the necessary applications. Here is the list:

Code:

Package group [A] 



aaa_base 

aaa_elflibs 

aaa_terminfo 

acl 

acpid 

apmd 

attr 

bash 

bin 

bzip2 

coreutils 

cpio 

cryptsetup 

cxxlibs 

dcron 

device-mapper 

devs 

dialog 

dosfstools 

e2fsprogs 

eject 

elvis 

etc 

file 

findutils 

floppy 

gawk 

gettext 

glibc-solibs 

glibc-zoneinfo 

grep 

gzip 

hdparm 

infozip 

isapnptools 

kbd 

kernel-huge-smp 

kernel-modules-smp 

less 

lilo 

logrotate 

lvm2 

mdadm 

module-init-tools 

openssl-solibs 

patch 

pciutils 

pcmciautils 

pkgtools 

procps 

quota 

reiserfsprogs 

rpm2tgz 

sdparm 

sed 

shadow 

slocate 

smartmontools 

sysfsutils 

sysklogd 

syslinux 

sysvinit 

sysvinit-functions 

sysvinit-scripts 

tar 

time 

tree 

udev 

usbutils 

utempter 

util-linux 

which 

xfsprogs 



Package group [AP] 



at 

cdrdao 

cdrtools 

diffutils 

dmapi 

dmidecode 

dvd+rw-tools 

groff 

lm_sensors 

lsof 

lsscsi 

man 

man-pages 

mc 

most 

screen 

sudo 

sysstat 

texinfo 

vim 

xfsdump 



Package group [D] 



autoconf 

automake 

binutils 

bison 

doxygen 

flex 

gcc 

gcc-g++ 

gettext-tools 

kernel-headers 

libtool 

m4 

make 

perl 

pkg-config 





Package group [F] 



linux-faqs 

linux-howtos 



Package group [K] 



kernel-source 



Package group [L] 



db42 

db44 

gdbm 

glibc 

glibc-i18n 

libusb

libxml2

lzo 

ncurses 

pcre 

popt 

readline 

zlib 



Package group [N] 



apr

apr-util

dhcpcd 

inetd 

iproute2 

iptables 

iptraf 

iputils 

lftp 

libgcrypt 

libgpg-error 

lynx 

mtr 

net-tools 

netkit-ftp 

netket-rsh 

netwatch 

network-scripts 

nmap 

ntp 

openssh 

openssl

php

tcp_wrappers 

telnet 

traceroute 

wget 

whois 

wireless-tools 

wpa_supplicant

I did not check if all those packages are needed. I just used it to decrease the number of unneeded packages. 155 packages.
If anybody sees any unneeded package please write.
For more info about packages:
http://slackwiki.org/Minimal_System

Good luck ...