[frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

  • From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:29:22 -0500 (EST)

In most cases I wouldn't downgrade. Maybe in an extreme case like a 733 MHz PIII with 2G memory, a 1 TB hardware RAID.5 and a blu-ray burner. In that case we could probably make better use of the parts elsewhere (...like on my machine ;-). 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brown
Sent: Feb 16, 2011 2:15 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

That too.

 

Tom --

 

From: frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Tribble
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 14:10
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

 

In other words , it it ain't broke don't fix it. 

 


On Feb 16, 2011, at 14:08, "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When nicely provisioned systems are donated, we let our active volunteers know in case they want to trade an older system for a better system. Also, well provisioned systems don’t deplete our inventory of parts. My 2 cents is: keep robust systems intact rather than downgrade them.

 

Tom --

 

From: frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Tribble
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 13:05
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

 

Mike, what about the downgrade question?  I would think he should just leave extra RAM and big hard drives in place.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For better or worse we have been putting everything in the root partition. We don't use LVM or encryption.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Germano

Sent: Feb 16, 2011 12:27 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

Should '/' and '/home' be separate partitions or are those space requirements only if we're running on multiple hard drives? (We can't use the Guided partitioner in setup if we want to have them on their own partition.) Also harddrive related, we aren't using LVM or encrypting home directories, are we?

 

Tony

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:13:35 -0500
From: mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

I don't have any problem with you picking up some parts to complete these systems.
The recommended (by me, we have no official spec) minimum specs are:
# 1 GHz x86 processor
# 512MB of system memory (RAM)
# 15 GB of disk space (5 for OS files; 10 for /home directory)
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