Re: AKLUG mirror server

I'm sure the case could be put to use by somebody!

So far: we have:

Case, motherboard, processor.
Video card.
2 Ethernet nics from Anthony.
1 ethernet card from Jim Gribbin if he can find one.
1 Ethernet card from me.
2 SCSI, 2G hard drives, as boot.
75+33 bucks for hard drives. (50 oliver, 25 me, 33 Anthony).

We need RAM (133 MHz is best, since we have a 733 MHz processor), and
the drives now.

The system has a SCSI CDROM too, but the little adapter thingy from 68
pin to 50 pin is missing. It is currently running ubuntu hoary, since I
wanted to make sure everything works. It's borrowing RAM from one of my
workstations.

Seriously now: We need a recommendation for a distro. I don't expect
people all appreciate ubuntu. Ideally, the system would allow easy
setup and management of LVM. I'm about to toast some centOS cds if no
one pipes up!

Anthony: Thanks for your help, too, by the way. I could probably arrange
a time with you to pick stuff up, since you work fridays.

Adam

Anthony Valentine wrote:

>*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.
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>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.
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>Anthony
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>Oliver Savage wrote:
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>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>For far, we have:
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>>>>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)
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>>>>What else we need:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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...
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>>>>Let me know what you think; what you might have to donate or want to
>>>>help out with.
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>>>>Adam
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