Re: tlug: -Server Info-

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, John Little wrote:

>    Sorry people, I've been so busy with real work that I haven't had
>    time to look at the list over the last few days, so I missed out on
>    the server discussion.
> 
>    I should probably describe the machine which I have available. It's
>    a Compaq tower system with a 486-66 and 32MB of RAM. It has a Compaq
>    hardware IDE RAID card (which Linux recognizes as a normal IDE disk)
>    and, currently, about 1GB of disk space which can be configured as
>    striped or mirrored storage. It also has a Compaq SCSI card and an
>    Archive (or Wangtek... can't remember exactly) 1/4" tape drive for
>    back-ups. Unfortunately, Linux doesn't recognize the proprietary
>    Compaq card, but the tape works fine when an Adaptec card is used in
>    its place. I also have a SCSI CD-ROM drive which works in this
>    system.  The network card is a 3COM (two or even three cards are
>    available).  It is an ISA bus machine and there are 4 or 5 free
>    slots.
> 
>    What I don't have for it is a monitor (keyboard yes, monitor no).

Should be sufficient.  I have a cheap 13" monitor here that I use for our
server.  I can just get a switchbox or something and have the two machines
share it.

Only need one network card, though :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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