Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > Itching to learn more about linux on "server hardware". So I'm bidding on > a Compaq Proliant 7000 with Quad Pentium II 200MHz processors, 640MB of > RAM, and 11 18.2GB Wide Ultra SCSI hard drives. This shouldn't be a problem. Basically it's an oversized PC with the nice features of RAID and redundant power supplies, etc. Put it in your basement, add a little duct work and you can heat your house in the winter. The one we had was loud and all those SCSI drives produce a lot of heat. It looks impressive though. The last place I worked we ran RedHat 7.x on our 7000. I think we had Slackware 8 or 9 on it at one time too. The big thing (as was already mentioned) is setting up the RAID via the Compaq Smartstart CD before you install the OS. I have some older Smartstart CD's if you need them. Once you have the RAID array setup, the OS install is pretty typical. Run fdisk, but with the RAID, the devices show up as /dev/ida/c0d0 or something like that. My point is that they're not normal scsi devices like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. The "ida" or whatever it's named is for the raid controller. You should be able to tell what this is by running 'dmesg' or watching the bootup messages. I seem to remember the box being picky about what nic you used. The built in one used the "thunderlan" driver but we generally just put an Intel PCI card (eepro) in the box and ran off that. Very solid and reliable hardware. Of course our developer were always crashing it with Java but that's another story... > Also - what would one expect to pay for a unit as described above? I'm guessing $500-$800 given that prices have dropped so much but I really don't know. Try searching "completed" auctions on ebay for this item? -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list