Re: AKLUG mirror server

From: Anthony Valentine <amv@akvalentine.com>
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 17:02:39 AKDT

I can donate a pair of 10/100 nics; one Linksys LNE100TX and one 3Com
3C905B-TX. I haven't used either of them in a while, but as far as I
know they both work fine.

Let me know how to get them to you. I work Friday nights, so I cannot
make the meetings.

Anthony

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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