My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon provided for the Raspberry
Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access, will this work? I was
looking at: https://895-inet.com/linux-vps-web-hosting/ to see what is available. Does
this package look like it would work?

Thanks,
Mike Dippel

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On 04 Sep 2022 at 01:00a, Mike Dippel pondered and said...

My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon
provided for the Raspberry
Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

I caveat this advice with the fact that I am not a Linux expert but yeah the Raspberry Pi runs an OS now called Raspberry Pi OS which is based (I believe) off Debian Linux. So the info I had put up was all couched for an OS that shared Linux conventions e.g. /path/to/file instead of c:\path\to\file etc.

Best, Paul

avon@bbs.nz / bbs.nz / fsxnet.nz

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*** Quoting Mike Dippel from a message to ALL ***

My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon
provided for the Raspberry Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure
what O/S the Pi runs on.

I used Avon's videos to set Mystic up on a Pi and then use that same
knowledge to set it up on Ubuntu. Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS) is based on Debian the same as Ubuntu is.

Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access,
will this work?

Yes, that should work as well. I've had Mystic running in a VPS at Lunanode with no issues. Running it at a VPS (at the time) also allowed me to setup IPv6 access as my ISP didn't offer IPv6 back then.

The only weird thing to snag me up on the VPS was getting cryptlib to work, I had to go back to an older version of cryptlib, though that may have just
been me fat fingering something. Follow these instructions and you should be good:

http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=cryptlib


Jay

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On 9/4/2022 5:12 PM, Paul Hayton wrote to Mike Dippel:

My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon provided for the Raspberry
Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

I caveat this advice with the fact that I am not a Linux expert but yeah the Raspberry Pi runs an OS now called Raspberry Pi OS which is based (I believe)
off Debian Linux. So the info I had put up was all couched for an OS that shared Linux conventions e.g. /path/to/file instead of c:\path\to\file etc.

Best, Paul

Many thanks.

Mike

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My first question is: Can I use the same setup instructions Avon provided for
the Raspberry
Pi to set up Mystic on Linux? Not sure what O/S the Pi runs on.

The Pi runs Linux. The most common distribution is Raspbian, which is
the Pi version of Debian.

Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access, will this work? I was
looking at: https://895-inet.com/linux-vps-web-hosting/ to see what is available. Does
this package look like it would work?

http://www.interserver.net is what I use for running my BBSes and my
personal email server on 2 Windows Server VPSes and 1 Debian Linux VPS.
Windows VPS service with them is $10/month and Linux VPS with them is
$6/month.

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On 9/6/2022 9:53 PM, Robert Wolfe wrote to Mike Dippel:

The Pi runs Linux. The most common distribution is Raspbian, which is
the Pi version of Debian.

Second question: If I use a VPS hosting package with root access, will this
work? I was
looking at: https://895-inet.com/linux-vps-web-hosting/ to see what is available. Does
this package look like it would work?

http://www.interserver.net is what I use for running my BBSes and my personal email server on 2 Windows Server VPSes and 1 Debian Linux VPS. Windows VPS service with them is $10/month and Linux VPS with them is $6/month.

Thanks. I can get Linux VPS for $6.00 a month as well using my own hosting company.
Just trying to figure out which is better for me: Windows or Linux. Currently it is
running fine on a Windows server.

Mike Dippel

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Thanks. I can get Linux VPS for $6.00 a month as well using my own hosting company.
Just trying to figure out which is better for me: Windows or Linux. Currently
it is
running fine on a Windows server.

Very cool. You know what they say. If it ain't broken, don't fix it :)
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On 08 Sep 2022, Robert Wolfe said the following...

Very cool. You know what they say. If it ain't broken, don't fix it :)

I think the actual phrase is; "If it ain't Windows, don't need to fix it"... or something like that :P

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On 9/9/2022 12:34 PM, Christian Sacks wrote to Robert Wolfe:

Very cool. You know what they say. If it ain't broken, don't fix it :)

I think the actual phrase is; "If it ain't Windows, don't need to fix it"... or
something like that :P

LMAO! HAHA! Good one! :)

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