[juneau-lug] NFS/HTTP Installfest tower

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jlug <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:56:59 -0800

Wednesday last week I picked up an MDI "Express Connect" CD tower at
state surplus.  The case was built by MDI, but it is really a
rebranded Axis CD-100T.

These things are pretty cool - it is an 8 bay tower case, with the top
bay filled by the Axis CD-100 unit (a single board computer, PowerPC,
32MB RAM, SCSI controller, NIC) and the other seven bays filled with
CD-ROM drives.  It supports SMB/CIFS, HTTP, Netware 6, and NFS.

Once I figured out how to reset the configuration settings from
whichever state agency had it (thanks guys, for leaving the admin
password set!), I started playing with it and found it works
perfectly, if a little slowly for NFS.  (It takes a little bit for the
mount to show up.)  I'm now able to do NFS or HTTP installs off of the
CDs and onto workstations with running NICs.  Since Debian 3.0 comes
on seven CDs, that is what is in the machine now.  However if/when we
ever do an installfest, I can pull the other Debian CDs and put other
distributions into the other drives.  I don't think it will support
RedHat anymore, since IIRC from 7.0 on RedHat expects CD1 and CD2 to
be copied to the same directory on a server for network installs. 
(Please correct me on this if you're running a recent RedHat and that
behavior has changed.)  However any other distribution that only needs
one CD available for HTTP/NFS installs should work fine.

Something to keep in mind for planning the next meeting.

Cheers,

James

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