This one time, at band camp, Brad Tilley said: > 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? I just did an install on a system that has a SCSI card (although not it's main hard disk) and 2 CPUs. It went just fine using the bf2.4 flavor install kernel, although I then rolled my own kernel to tweak a few things that weren't right. It sounds like it would be pretty easy to set up RAID or LVM on, if you wanted to do that, although you can also just partition and mount as you see fit, also. The only issue I've found with boxes like this is that powering all the way down doesn't happen (you have to hit the power switch manually after the screen says "power down"), but this is a known kernel problem, and unlikely to be resolved soon. I'd say, have fun with it - it sounds like a nice box! Steve -- Nobody ever died from oven crude poisoning.
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