Re: What should I buy ?
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 02:19:17PM +, Ionut Borcoman at home wrote: Hi, It is possible to obtain some money at the office for a new server. Here is the 'generic configuration' that I have in mind: I don't know what this server is for. I sincerly hope you don't want to waste this stuff on a file server or so :) (For a file server, you neither need CPU power, nor graphic card, sound card or monitor). - Dual Pentium II 300 AMD is working well, and maybe just go for an ALPHA 500 MHz :) - 256 Mb RAM Yep. If you want to do Squid proxy caching, file serving or graphic processing, consider even more. - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs SCSI Controller: BusLogic is a must. Maybe get four smaller disks and use Software RAID to improve security- - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19 Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM The faster CD ROMs can cause problems (especially with bad CD's, for example, where the weight is not good distributed on the disc). So, it may work better with a slower CD Drive. However, good CD drives should be able to control themselves. - Network Card (100 Mb/s) Probably don't buy 3com cards. Look in the Ethernet Howto for a list of supported cards. - SoundBlaster Clone Don't buy clones! You'll have a hard time finding the right Linux driver, because they are not hardware compatibel. Buy a card you can find the name in the supported list (Sound-HOWTO): For example, SB 16 (original). - Flatbed SCSI Scanner - Small Postscript Printer - Radio-modem - SO: Debian Slink Maybe Debian Hamm for stability, with a few selected packages upgraded. Have you considered a back up device? Also: ASUS motherboard. As much CPU cache as possible. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
What should I buy ?
Hi, It is possible to obtain some money at the office for a new server. Here is the 'generic configuration' that I have in mind: - Dual Pentium II 300 - 256 Mb RAM - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19 Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM - Network Card (100 Mb/s) - SoundBlaster Clone - Flatbed SCSI Scanner - Small Postscript Printer - Radio-modem - SO: Debian Slink We will have something arround 7000$ - 8000$ to spend for this server. The problem is that I am not sure about what brands/models to look for. For instance, the SCSI Controler from another computer of us doesn't work extremely well and I was able to install only hamm on that computer, but not the bo, because of this. TIA, Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What should I buy ?
Wow, good choice, man! Check out http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ or http://www.varesearch.com/ Alex Y. - Dual Pentium II 300 - 256 Mb RAM - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19 Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM - Network Card (100 Mb/s) - SoundBlaster Clone - Flatbed SCSI Scanner - Small Postscript Printer - Radio-modem - SO: Debian Slink -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What should I buy ?
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Ionut Borcoman at home wrote: - 2 Mb AGP Card Might was well get 4 MB so you can do 24 bpp at high resolutions! The problem is that I am not sure about what brands/models to look for. Get it from a Linux vendor like www.varesearch.com or build it from parts. VA Research is an excellent company in our experience. Look in Linux Journal for more vendors. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What should I buy ?
Havoc Pennington wrote: Get it from a Linux vendor like www.varesearch.com or build it from parts. VA Research is an excellent company in our experience. Look in Linux Journal for more vendors. Actually I have to restrict to local vendors (from Romania). Most probably we will complete a specification sheet and go to some local vendors and see the prices. The problem is to know very clear what do we want :). TIA, Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
