On Monday 03 September 2018 15:13:06 Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be
> recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work; CentOS 6 32-bit
> might not.
It previously had Centos 6 on it, but I wanted to avoid that as it now has a
limited
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I had not considered the lack of energy efficiency. The server has
> a MSI MS-9628 board with a Pentium M processor, and the one modern
> 4TB HDD.
This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be
recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work;
On Sep 3, 2018, at 2:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> ...Pentium M processor...tiny fan...assumed power consumption would be low.
You could well be right, but I’m a fan of taking measurements over guessing. :)
If you were in the US, I’d recommend either of these from personal testing:
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:20:20 Warren Young wrote:
> You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
>
> “Old Pentium,” as someone else said, can mean anything back to 1993, but “4
> TB drive” suggests something far newer than that.
>
> I ask because that affects the expected energy draw of the
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:09:13 Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
> We use mysql as database backend for bacula, and it becomes heavy loaded,
> over time especially wenn restoring respectively generating filelists. So,
> not sure if such old CPU provides enough compute power ...
This isn't the
My recommendation, take it for what its worth:
32-bit distros to me are a short lived proposition IMO.
Example: I'm running Centos 6, 32-bit version. I recently ran into an issue
where a package
(clamav) started using a 64-bit library for decompression of files. End result,
end of scanning
for
Le 31/08/2018 à 16:29, Gary Stainburn a écrit :
> Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
I'd say whatever bone-headed distro you're comfortable with.
Personally, I'd use 32-bit Slackware 14.2 without even giving it a
second thought.
Cheers,
Niki
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Warren Young wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
>>
>> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
>> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
>> processor in it.
>
> You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
>
>
J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> On 31/08/18 16:47, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>> Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>
>
>
>> "Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993!
>
> They were the ones nicknamed "i586.01" see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
>
Which a lot of
On 8/31/18 12:09 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
Am 31.08.2018 um 16:29 schrieb Gary Stainburn :
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to
be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
it.
We use mysql as database
On Aug 31, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish
> to
> be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
> it.
You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
“Old Pentium,” as someone
> Am 31.08.2018 um 16:29 schrieb Gary Stainburn :
>
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish
> to
> be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
> it.
We use mysql as database backend for bacula, and it becomes heavy loaded,
On 31/08/18 16:47, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> "Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993!
They were the ones nicknamed "i586.01" see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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install ports. The two come hand-in-hand.
There’s no confusion. The maintainers, the admins, are far and few between on
FreeBSD. The very reason I’m here is due to to just that. That, cannot be
said of the
On 8/31/18 10:47 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, mark wrote:
CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but make sure it
includes networking).
Please note that I installed CentOS 6, just a few months ago, on an HP
Netbook from '09, and it runs perfectly well.
On 8/31/18 10:12 AM, Bee.Lists wrote:
I’m fresh out of FreeBSD world. Depending on the port, it can be easy and
predictable, or an absolute confusion-fest.
FreeBSD ports should not be confused with FreeBSD system. Each of ports
is maintained by different maintainer(s), some of them get
On Friday 31 August 2018 16:35:54 mark wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
> > wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
> > processor in it.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
On 8/31/18 9:52 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2018 15:44:53 Valeri Galtsev wrote:
I would use FreeBSD (and I do use FreeBSD for bacula, now bareos backup
server and storage hosts), it has really small "footprint", and it is
quite widespread.
Incidentally, I was using bacula
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
> processor in it.
"Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993!
The least demanding distributions I know
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, mark wrote:
CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but make sure it
includes networking).
Please note that I installed CentOS 6, just a few months ago, on an HP
Netbook from '09, and it runs perfectly well.
mark "see? I didn't say anything about
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
> processor in it.
>
> Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but
I’m fresh out of FreeBSD world. Depending on the port, it can be easy and
predictable, or an absolute confusion-fest.
> On Aug 31, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> Thanks for this. I haven't looked at FreeBSD since the 1990's or there
> abouts,
> but I'll give it a look.
On Friday 31 August 2018 15:44:53 Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> I would use FreeBSD (and I do use FreeBSD for bacula, now bareos backup
> server and storage hosts), it has really small "footprint", and it is
> quite widespread.
>
> Incidentally, I was using bacula for very long time, but recently I
>
On 8/31/18 9:29 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to
be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
it.
Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
I would use FreeBSD (and I do use
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to
be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
it.
Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
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