[ucc] Re: [tech] New machine...

[Trent Lloyd]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:37:25PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> Craig (reaps) has kindly donated an ex-server to UCC. Specs are:
Cool.
>  - Dual PPro-200
>  - 512MB RAM (most days, occasionally 640MB)
perhaps we should take out the ram that spontaneously shows up.

>  - Dual hefty PSU
>  - HP NetRaid card with onboard memory & battery
>  - 1x4GB Ultra-SCSI SCA-2 drive (were 2, but one was friend by
>    certain someone)
>  - 4x9GB Ultra-SCSI SCA-2 drives, in RAID5 == 27GB
>  - 2xAdaptec 7880 controllers
Nice ;)

> It's currenty running an install of Debian on XFS, but if anybody
> feels we should put another quirky OS on, nobody would be too
> offended.  Have tried OpenBSD, but the RAID driver panic'd the
> machine and temporarily munged the RAID card itself (required a
> power cycle to get going again).

Debian +XFS seems ok with me. Not that I've used XFS but it sounds funky from what I've heard.

> 
> Suggestions for use? Current suggestions are:
>  - replace /home /space or /services
I'll go for /home
>  - replace http services (currently sucking on mermaid)
I'll second that
>  - replace hydra
that's an interesting idea.
I'd consider it too.
However since it is more geared towards hard disk space I think the former 2 are better ideas.
Also since its Linux, shell access to users with a local /home would be nice. So can we please not make it a wheel-only box?

>  - <insert your faVourite pasttime>
It must have an IPv6 address :P
speaking of which, any luck with those ciscos?
otherwise I'll bring this p100 back in this weekend ready to go.

Cheers,
Trent