Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Lee W
It is also more space appropriate to do this headless than to go with a separate traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more headaches than I can guess at at present. Hi Mark, Given that you are putting all this in a rack, Have you considered using a KVM switch,

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: It is also more space appropriate to do this headless than to go with a separate traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more headaches than I can guess at at present. Hi Mark, Given that you are putting all this

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: It is also more space appropriate to do this headless than to go with a separate traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more headaches than I can guess at at present.

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... Here me English is lacking, atleast I can't parse the above. ... Yeah, I did say something weird there :) ...sniped the explanation Okee, I see. In my experience most

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: It is also more space appropriate to do this headless than to go with a separate traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:39, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: It is also more space appropriate to do this headless than to go with a separate

Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I'm looking at putting a couple rack mounted systems in as a reorganisation of my computing environment - one an SMP IA32 type system (we'll see how many CPUs make sense) running as a file and computing server with Debian GNU/Linux, and the other likely only one CPU at present to run as an

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the serial option for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that it is one I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: .. The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack computer being meant to be rebooted regularly as I switch between various o/s, how reliable is

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: Mark L. Kahnt said: a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the serial option for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that it is one

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Carel Fellinger said: This I find hard to believe, did you try to send a break? According to the lilo docs one needs to send a break instead of pressing shift to get lilo's attention. no, haven't tried that:) thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: .. The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack computer being meant to be rebooted

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options doesn't let me interact with lilo, it just spits the information out to the serial port. This I find hard to