Compaq Proliant 5000
Hello,
A friend of mine gave me a Compaq Proliant 5000. It has 4 Pentium pro 200 CPUs
and 1024 MB ECC RAM. It also has 4 9.1 GB SCSI hdds and 2 10/100 NICs. These
things sold for ~60,000 US dollars in 1996!!! Today you can get one on ebay
for a few hundred dollars.
Anyway, I would like to install debian 3.0 on it and use it as the Internet
gateway/file server on my home LAN, but I've *never* had a server as complex
as this before.
Do other debian users run servers similar to this? My hardware experience is
limited to single CPU based PC systems that run IDE drives. I have no SCSI
array/hotswap experience. Any tips before I try to install?
Thanks,
"GNU\Linux... may the source be with you."
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