Re: AKLUG mirror server

i'll throw in cash for drives, $50 on it. I would also like to learn
how it is set up.
>
> On 9/23/05, adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org> 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 mirro=
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> > 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 u=
p.
> >
> > 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 cubicl=
e
> > 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 thei=
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> > teeth and getting a bit more familiar with both administration and linu=
x.
> >
> > 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 Sun Sep 25 22:33:39 2005