[juneau-lug] Re: JLUG Server

Holy crap this is a big box, does it have wheels? Cause the I will just
put it on the ground.

Also, prolly going to have to find a UPS for this big bad boy. Cause
there is a 2 second delay for when it switches over to generator.

We have UPS, but this will mostlikely over power them.

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:14 -0900, East Wind wrote:
> James Zuelow wrote:
> > The drives appear fine from the limited amount of testing I could do with=20
> > them.  I am limited to looking at a rather limited RAID controller utility=
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> > from BIOS. 
> I've got a couple new Mylex DAC1164 w/64MB BBU RAM modules.
> I'd be willing to donate to the cause if you'd like a little better
> hardware raid situation.
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> >  The RAID controller was set up for two partitions - a RAID 5 wi=
> > th=20
> > the existing drives, and a RAID 1 set up on the empty bays.  I brought the=
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> > machine back up to 6 drives, and configured a single RAID 5 (about 85GB in=
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> > total).
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> > To boot a CD, I have to get to the BIOS.  Right now it will boot from flopp=
> > y=20
> > or the drive array only.
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> > These old Compaq servers should have an SMS partition on the drives with to=
> > ols=20
> > to actually get to the BIOS, which was not there.  (Probably the OS and=20
> > service partition was on the missing drives from the array.)  Compaq has a=
> > =20
> > tool to set up floppy disks to install this stuff, but as usual it's not ju=
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> > a zip file or tarball but a Windows executable that uncompresses things and=
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> > writes them to disk.  I do have two Windows machines available at home, bot=
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> > of which are Windows XP Service Pack 2 with all patches.  Too bad, that.  T=
> > he=20
> > Compaq utility won't work on XP, even in compatibility mode, because of the=
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> > way it wants to create the floppies.  So I need to find a Win9x or perhaps=
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> > Win2k box to create the floppies.
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> > =46rom there I can restore the SMS partition before putting an OS on it.  (=
> > Yes,=20
> > I can get the floppy images for Debian Etch easily, but I'd prefer a fully=
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> > functional server with a working "F10" key before installing the OS.)
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> > Once I can boot from CD I'll run it through memtest86+, a thorough test of =
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> > RAID array, and put the base OS on it.
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