Hello
I’m having a large problem with our development server, it have had a program called Webmin + a total idiot have been administrating the Linux sever. Witch now have resulted in the server being totally trashed, there are so many different kinds of the same program install that anything doesn’t work. And don’t get me started on the users and groups 
Well at last I have been given the responsibility to administrate our development server. But I would like to start from scratch, instead of trying to find every single package and config the previous admin have **ed up. But the problem is that it is a remote hosted server with ssh access.
The server is running Debian, but i am thinking of reinstalling it with ubuntu server
Thanks
Doable, but not for a newbie.
- Locate/create some spare disk space – 500M is enough for a X-less Debian, and create a new device to install into.
- Debootstrap the new install into the partition.
- Ajust boot loader to default to the new install
- Reboot
Don’t try this unless either 1) you really know what you’re doing or 2) the provider gives you a way to monitor to the whole boot process so you can recover from a boot loader problem.
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