Hello everyone, It's been a busy and exciting time. As those of you who have been following the lists and #hcoop know, I have had a Dell PowerEdge donated by Justin, a Sun Fire donated by Ray, and a Nortel switch donated by Shaun sitting in my apartment for some weeks. The hardware has survived two relocations and one flood, all waiting to be moved to its new home in lower Manhattan per our longstanding plans.
I faxed in the membership agreement last weekend, and Adam faxed in the bank authorization on Tuesday. I made some purchases and started to look at the servers and do what needed to be done to prepare for the Peer1 move-in. Purchases: Membership agreement fax from Kinko's (9 pages): $12.50 Radio Shack: 2 x Power cable 3 x cat5e cable power strip total: about $57 (need to locate receipt or check CC statement) Radio Shack: 6' DB9 RS-232 cable: 16.49 Null modem adapter for the same: 8.79 tax: 2.12 total: 27.40 LA Computer Center: SCSI HD, matching 2nd HD for mire.hcoop.net, including "2nd day shipping": $184 Van service: $69.50 including tunnel toll and tip total: ~$350.00 I'll have this credited to my account when the HD comes in and I get the exact quantity for the first RS bill. I have receipts for everything other than the fax, and I am filing these with the HCoop records. I arranged for the van service to pick me and the servers up this morning, taking a whole bunch of equipment with me for the trip. The driver ended up going through the midtown tunnel instead of the Brooklyn Bridge as I had suggested, (extra toll!), and driving through Manhattan. Both of us were quite lost once we got past the numbered streets and into the twisty-turny one-way land of the financial district, but after a phone call we eventually pulled up by the freight elevator to 75 Broad and unloaded. The staff kindly helped to stack the servers in the rack and donated a crossover cable to the cause. The Nortel switch has to be configured through the serial console. Despite best efforts and a brand new serial cable and null modem adapter, I have so far failed to configure the switch. However, it still forwards packets, so eventually I got both of the servers, Deleuze (the Dell) and Mire (the Sun) online. They are ready to be set up. The extra hard drive for Mire has not yet arrived, but I have found that it should be relatively straightforward to set up software RAID-1 with the new hard drive without reinstalling the system. There was much more going on and many details left out (as well as a lot of fellow HCoopers in #hcoop who helped me through the process), but it is late and I must retire for the night. Tomorrow I will hopefully be talking to the admins again and helping to move forward. I believe that these expenses related to migration and hosting at Peer1 will be allocated according to the pledges made at the portal, rather than equally divided as before, at least until the per-member cost falls below $5. Which, given that we have nearly 100 members now, should be quite soon. n.b. I found that the gateway address is not really usable by us, and cannot be assigned to baltar, the switch. Hence the new IP allocation we have is as follows: 69.90.123.50 baltar (nortel switch) 69.90.123.51 deleuze (dell) 69.90.123.52 mire (sun) 69.90.123.53 abulafia (old) 69.90.123.54 unallocated .48 is invalid, .49 is the gateway, .55 is our subnet broadcast address. so we have only 5 effective IP addresses out of the 8 IP subnet we requested. however at any time we can request additional subnets of any size for free, if we use them. next time we should request at least a 16 iIP subnet. -ntk _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
