Sorry for not being more clear. Does anyone have hardware that they are willing to donate for this project? If people are willing to put up money to buy the exact hardware that we need, that would be great. Maybe we need two threads, one that discusses various "ideal" solutions and the other for "let's cobble something together out of spare parts". Rick Meyerhoff wrote: > I got a computer (no hard drives) from Wil that I tried to power up to > see what CPU & RAM it had but it's not sending any signal to the > monitor. No POST, but the fan comes on & LEDs light. It has a wacky > solenoid and switch that I assume is to not allow you to work on it > with the case open or not allow you open the case while the power is > on or maybe it's a security feature to prevent tampering. Anyway it's > a Compaq and the case is a little rough to work in. I think it's a > P166, which is a bit slow even for a distro server. It has three DIMM > sticks, one of unknown size, one 64 Mb, one 32 Mb. It currently has a > brand new 52x CD-RW in the case. > > I have a 2Gig SCSI disk, and some external SCSI cases that have > needed a good home for a while. > > I suspect that our best bet for getting a lot of disk space > is to use SCSI. With SCSI we can more disks, even if they are small > and if need be I think we can use multiple SCSI controllers. > > If we have parts for one or two machines that would be great but > three is probably overkill. > > I was going to put this in the software thread but it's pretty closely > related to hardware. Is this a good use for LVM? Since we will > probably have various sized disks and the data on the disks can fairly > easily be re-created from the net? I'm thinking that the OS and all > the mechanism for doing the mirroring etc. would be on one disk that's > *not* part of the logical volume but all the distros *would* be on the > LV. I know almost nothing about the LVM so please tell me if this is > not a good application of it. > -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list