Lets start with the specs: Msi K7D-Master-L Motherboard. Onboard 10/100 nic (for WAN) 2 1GHZ AMD Athlon MP processors Copper shimmed Cold Spike All copper water blocks (avaliable from my websight www.hasty-solutions.com) 3 Enermax Ultra Cool temperature controlled fans. 7" x 12" transmission oil cooler 1 qt coolant with water wetter coolant pump (all coolant components are internaly plumbed and contained). 512 MB DDR 266 CL 2 Samsung ram Usb 2.0 Usb 1.1 External Usb 2.0 30G ibm backup hard drive. Broadcom bcm5701 64 bit 66 mhz copper gigabit nic (for terminals usning eepro100 nics) Intel SRCU32 2 channel u160 64 bit 66 mhz raid controller w/ 256 MB pc-133 CL 2 micron/crucial ram 6+1 Raid 5 Seagate cheta 10k rpm u160 4 MB cashe SCSI Drives, in removable sca drive trays. DVD-rom Sony CDRW 24X Int zip 250 1.44 Floppy Soundblaster Live ATI Rage 128 Pro 32 MB 21" ncd monitor ATX Full Tower case with red racing stripes. 350 Watt ATX Pentium 4/AMD approved powersupply.
I will be trying over the next week to use MDK 9.0 rc2 to set up a small office terminal server. I will keep all posted as to how it goes. A question: Is there any hardware on my list that may not have the nessicary software developed to use it with Linux and MDK 9.0? broadcom gigabit nick works without a hitch. If any one has made use of any of these components and has tips to share I would greatly appriciate the tips. Do you think this is enough to handle being at least a half decent terminal server? Only ran across one major hitch when loading rc2, it will not run in smp mode. Seems to hang and reboot around the isapnp portion of init. This motherboard has no isapnp how can I turn it off? -------------------------------------------------------
