On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:27 +0200 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware > (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) > that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, > groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, > and a mailing list manager). > > The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing > fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important > documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. > > I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have > a separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things > while trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. > > It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if > it fits their needs. > > I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this > weekend, so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know > for sure it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade > if needed. > > Here are my questions: > > - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? > > - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware > (expecially the disk) is fine? > > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for > the ppc? > > - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on > nfs shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe > just the distfiles? > > - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? > > - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro > I fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? > Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? > > Thank yo in advance for your answers. If you are round a university, I would actually suggest asking around and seeing if there are old P3 workstations being thrown out. With a little TLC, gentoo runs nicely on such hardware, especially as a headless server in a corner. Such a box would also offer a LOT more flexibility than an old laptop would, and they will probably be delighted to get rid of it! Rob. (Has a little collection of such "rescued" machines.)
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