David Christensen wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's > > showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC > > was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was > > hanging). > > Install a Gigabit NIC into the old box and turn off the motherboard > NIC in the BIOS. Get the new NIC working.
This would be my vote. And then simply stop there. Once you have disabled the onboard network card, put a new network card into the old box and set it up, then your old machine should be fully operational. Stop there. > > As a result, I have purchased a new (old and refurbished) > > machine. The difference is that this one has an x86-64 whereas the > > old one is 32-bit. > > Do a fresh install of current Debian stable amd64 on the new box. And then put the new machine to good use too. Bob
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