On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 02:19:17PM +0000, 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/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.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
