Re: AKLUG mirror server

With the drives it sounds like we're getting, it seems like we'll be
able to hold quite a bit without breaking a sweat.

Oliver, if you don't mind, why don't you head up the drive buying, and
everybody can write you a check (or give you cash). If you show up on
Friday, I'll give you my money then.

I haven't heard anything from Jon Reynolds about having it in his
cubicle... Jon, you wanna sound off on that? Otherwise, it'll be
something that could move with the keys...

Adam

Damien Hull wrote:

>You might want to find out how much we have in the bank. I don't think
>it's much ( if anything ) but we do have a bank account.
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>I've still got the following distributions mirrored.
>1. Ubuntu ( hory and breezy )
>2. Fedora Core 4 and 3
>3. CentOS
>4. Suse updates
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>We could rsync the aklug server with mine to get things started. Just so
>you all know hory and breezy add up to 86 GB. I wasn't sure what to grab
>so I rsynced everything but power pc.
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>Adam bultman wrote:
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>>I'm sure the case could be put to use by somebody!
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>>So far: we have:
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>>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).
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>>We need RAM (133 MHz is best, since we have a 733 MHz processor), and
>>the drives now.
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>>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.
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>>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!
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>>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.
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>>Adam
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>>Anthony Valentine wrote:
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>>>*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
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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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>>>>>>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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>>>>>>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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Received on Tue Sep 27 12:06:05 2005