Re: AKLUG mirror server

*I found this drive ( http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3492233 ). It's
a 200GB Maxtor, ATA 133 for $69 and only **$13.73 for shipping. If
Oliver wants to throw in his $50, I'll cover the other $33.

Also, a co-worker says that he will donate a brand new case, still in
the box. He doesn't remember specifics on it's size or manufacturer,
but he says he will bring it in to work sometime this week.

Anthony

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Oliver Savage wrote:

>i'll throw in cash for drives, $50 on it. I would also like to learn
>how it is set up.
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>>On 9/23/05, adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org> wrote:
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>>>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=
>>>
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>>> 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=
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>>>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=
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>>>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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