Sounds nice, but the pc is not really rugged, have you tested it with hight temperatures and humidity?
How stable is the power supply in Uruguay? best regards, Christopher 2008/6/23 Tony Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> From: " Christopher Niem?ller " >> I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware >> and got some questions. >> >> Whats the target price for the school server? >> How many school server are needed anyway? >> Whats the typical power source for the server? 12V DC or 24V DC or >> 110V AC or 230V AC? >> What are the other conditions like temperature and humidity? Would it >> be enough if the server is capable of operating between 0?-55?C and >> 0-90% humidity? >> Which outlets are really needed (w/ switch)? >> I guess something like: >> -4x Ethernet (over the switch) >> -4x USB2.0 >> -1x Power >> Is something like a vga, p/s2, rs232, ... needed? > > Chris, I put together a school server from parts at a local computer supply > store for $530. This > is for a project for OLPC Uruguay ( > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project ) > > The full parts list is here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw > > In addition to XS, I also have Fedora 7 and Debian 4 Etch installed in a > multi-boot GRUB. > The software installation: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw > > The entire machine needs only a single RJ45 Ethernet connection. I am able > to access > the system remotely from my Windows PC using OpenSSH. I have created a > customized > SysRescCD that allows me to boot into SSHD mode to perform the install and > admin remotely. > > Currently, I have it set up as a RAID1 mirror between two 160GB drives, but > I have two > 30GB un-raided partitions, for a total space of 190GB. The implementation > could easily > accomodate larger or more drives to have the 500GB Wad suggests. > > I need to figure out Moodle+PostgreSQL this week, then I ship it off to its > final destination. > > Thanks > Tony Pearson > Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ > Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson > Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage > AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
