Debian 4.0 Etch (oldstable) Server

Pick the Right Release

For a complete list of the Debian and Ubuntu AMIs available in this series including AMIs in the European EC2 region, please see the following web page:

http://alestic.com

Selecting the correct AMI for your needs will improve your EC2 experience.

Description

This AMI is a clean, base install of Debian 4.0 Etch (oldstable), built by Eric Hammond. This 32-bit AMI is for running on the 32-bit instance sizes including: m1.small, c1.medium

Features

Features include:

• Debian 4.0 Etch with upgraded packages (as of 2009-10-11)
• Amazon EC2 AMI tools (1.3-34544 20071010) installed and patched for Debian
• Uses Amazon's newer 2.6.21 kernel (2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen-ec2-v1.0)

• Includes 2.6.21 kernel modules

• openssh-server installed
• On first boot, runs instance user-data script if it starts with #!
• Generate new ssh host keys on first boot and output fingerprints
• ca-certificates installed to support SSL in ec2-bundle-upload
• libc6-xen installed for performance
• /etc/apt/sources.list for lenny main contrib non-free
• /etc/event.d/tty[2-6] removed to avoid error messages in logs
• Shadow passwords enabled
• root password locked
• ssh PasswordAuthentication disabled
• 10GB root (/) partition
• Network: DHCP on eth0, loopback on lo, simple /etc/hosts with localhost
• root ssh public key creditials retrieved from instance parameters or ephemeral store on startup (standard Amazon EC2 ssh access for public AMIs)
• Added "UseDNS no" to /etc/ssh/sshd_config as recommended by http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2007-03-01/DeveloperGuide/public-ami-guidelines.html
• Comment appended to /etc/motd
• Locale en_US, Timezone UTC

Support

If you use or are thinking of using this AMI, please subscribe to the ec2debian Google Group where you will find out about updates to the Debian AMIs and tips for running Debian on Amazon EC2.

To subscribe, send an email mesage to ec2debian-subscribe@googlegroups.com

Support is also available through the above forum.

Build Process

Advanced users may consult the following page for information on how this AMI was built and to get instructions for building their own.

http://alestic.com

History

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• Use new 2.6.21 kernel, ramdisk, and kernel modules from Amazon (security fix)
• Add Alestic PPA to apt sources on Ubuntu
• Install runurl from Alestic PPA
• Pin the ec2-ami-tools package version so it does not get downgraded
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-f146a798 - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20090804.manifest.xml

• Upgrade EC2 AMI tools to 1.3-34544
• Improve security by running host key regeneration after RNG initialization.
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-1f729476 - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20090614.manifest.xml

• Upgrade EC2 AMI tools to 1.3-31780
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-e248af8b - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20090418.manifest.xml

• Disable ssh PasswordAuthentication by default to improve security
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-66fe190f - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20090215.manifest.xml

• With the release of "lenny", "etch" is now "oldstable"
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-105db979 - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20081222.manifest.xml

• Upgrade EC2 AMI tools to 1.3-34544 20071010 with support for European region eu-west-1
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-5670943f - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20081130.manifest.xml

• New --arch option from patch by Don Spaulding II
• Upgrade EC2 AMI tools to 1.3-26357 20071010
• The old 2.6.16 kernel modules are no longer bundled with the image.
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-12d7337b - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20080924.manifest.xml

• bugfix: Mounts /mnt as ephemeral storage with /etc/fstab
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-27d4304e - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20080922.manifest.xml

• DEFECT: This AMI is missing /etc/fstab and does not mount /mnt as ephemeral storage!
• bugfix: Only generate ssh host keys on first boot, not on every reboot.
• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-cffa1ea6 - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20080905.manifest.xml

• All packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-129e7a7b - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-desktop-20080803.manifest.xml

• Build using latest debootstrap v1.0.10
• Output new ssh host key fingerprints to console log for security.
• Use newly built kernel modules where fuse supports NFS export.
• All Debian packages upgraded to latest versions

ami-8bbc58e2 - alestic/debian-4.0-etch-base-20080629.manifest.xml

• Original release