Re: AKLUG mirror server: addendum

How about a mATX w/ pii-333 and, I think, 192MB of ram. It's actually in
a case now, but I don't think the mATX case it's in would work very well
   for this server. Not much drive space. Not much power supply.
Might have said something last night, but I was working on something
else and didn't here you guys discussing this.

Adam bultman wrote:
> Hmm...
>
> It appears that the rather large, nice, ATX case will not fit a very
> small AT motherboard.
>
> So:
>
> 1. If you have an ATX, Slot 1 motherboard to take the palce of this AT
> one, super.
> 2. If you have a case that will more appropriately take this AT
> motherboard, super.
>
> I may have a lead on a motherboard already, from a person who's computer
> I fixed recently.
>
> Adam
>
> adam bultman wrote:
>
>
>>Good evening, everybody.
>>An idea was hatched tonight at the meeting: An AKLUG mirror server.
>>
>>Instead of placing the burden on Damien each week for getting his mirror
>>up to date and bringing it in, we'd gather some hardware and set up a
>>server to put mirror and other data on.
>>
>>For far, we have:
>>
>>Antec Case with 350W power supply (Thanks, Jim Wadell)
>>Motherboard and processor (Thanks, guy who's name I don't know and Jim
>>Wadell)
>>2, 2GB 68pin SCSI drives and cable (Thanks, Adam Bultman)
>>Adaptec 3940 SCSI Card (Thanks, Adam Bultman (and jim wadell for giving
>>one to me))
>>SCSI CDROM (Thanks, Adam Bultman) with converter
>>Video Card (Thanks, Adam Bultman)
>>
>>What else we need:
>>
>>RAM - 133 MHz, 168 pin SDRAM. As much as possible. There are three RAM
>>slots.
>>Ethernet Card: Ideally two or three for more throughput (multiple IP
>>addresses or ethernet bonding)
>>Hard drives: Since the boot drives (RAID1) and CDROM are SCSI, we'll
>>have four open IDE slots. We would like to ideally *buy* some IDE
>>drives, as large as possible. There are always deals at the local chain
>>stores that we can take advantage of and hopefully get something like
>>300G in there.
>>Distro recommendations: I lean towards either centos or ubuntu. Any
>>recommendations are accepted.
>>Wade and Jim Gribbin have offered up some RAM to put into the machine.
>>If I can get RAM for it sooner rather than later, I can have the OS on
>>the server by next Friday. The larger the sticks of ram, the better.
>>64s would be fine, but 128s would be better. If somebody wants to
>>arrange a time with me to pick up some RAM, I'll run down and pick it up.
>>
>>If people offer to pony up dough (I'll kick in like, 25 bucks or
>>something) somebody can pick up a drive and we can start getting the
>>mirror set up next week. The more money, the better. We can get a few
>>decently sized drives and use LVM. The smaller drives (you know,
>>10-40G) probably aren't all that useful, since 4 drives at 40G would be
>>easily filled with the mirrors of just a few distributions. I'm not
>>really thinking we need to worry about RAID1, since the system will be
>>kinda slow (733 MHz, if we can get 133 MHz RAM) and ide-based.
>>
>>The plan was to try to convince Jon Reynolds to "host" it in his cubicle
>>or something. It sits under the desk with a local IP address, runs an
>>http and nfs server that we can connect to each week . It won't be
>>available to the outside world, so hopefully it won't get cracked or
>>something. Somebody could keep it updated by setting up the mirror
>>scripts to run each night late at night.
>>
>>What else would be needed is an admin. I'm sure we have many capable
>>admins here available and willing to help admin the box. It also might
>>give some of the newer people to linux an excellent way of cutting their
>>teeth and getting a bit more familiar with both administration and linux.
>>
>>If we are daring, and put the system on the internet (say, on an off
>>port, with ssh keys as the only way of getting in, in order to minmize
>>the possibility of getting broken into) we could allow people to get in
>>during the week and test out new programs, perhaps making sandboxes for
>>people to install and test new programs or daemons and use it as a way
>>of perhaps preparing additional material for presentations...
>>
>>Let me know what you think; what you might have to donate or want to
>>help out with.
>>
>>Adam
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Received on Sat Sep 24 13:56:08 2005