> Not my first choice for server hardware either - in fact pretty much the > last choice I would make. Mac minis I believe were mostly laptop components > (5400 rpm hard drives etc) last time I looked. Also not conducive to staying > cool or powered on 24 hours a day.
Provided these are the new all aluminum versions, they have 7200 drives. > I believe they have a 1 tb HD in them Nope, 2, 500GB > However if they are intel based you might, with some research, be able to > put Linux on them. Of course this is possible. Just boot them from a Linux distro CD. I know they don't have a drive, but they can make use of a drive on any other computer on the network (Windows of Mac). Or boot from an external drive (FireWire oar USB) and clone the linux you want on them. > One thing to make sure of is that there is a forward and a reverse DNS > record for the machine ahead of time. A Mac OS X Server is is much > happier if it can resolve its own name when it starts up. This is most definitely true. If these are running 10.6, they will set up their own DNS resolving themselves. Since you probably have your own DNS server running, you should add the server(s) to that DNS, prior to doing anything else on the Mac server. Then make sure to input that IP when you initially config the Mac server. Sincerely, Tim Crawford Apple Certified Technical Consultant - ACTC Certified Member - Apple Consultants Network Apple Product Professional Tim Crawford Consulting Carol Stream, IL 60188 http://www.tcconsulting.com phone 630/707-0199 | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
