From: "Martin Schrvder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2008/11/10 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Put in a couple of big hard drives (I don't know what's there already)
and use it as network storage (backup your other computers).
And then wonder why it crashes when it does the first fsck. :-(
AFAIK 64M will only allow you to fsck <64GB.
Seriously: Get yourself a new machine if you can. It will be much
faster and consume less power.
I'd second that.. Whilst I get the occasional desire for Old Computer Kit
and some old computers have a few neat features, generally there really
isn't much to compete with a decent Core2Duo/Quad box - it's not that
expensive, is low power, fast and supports virtualisation. I can say that
considering I also run OpenBSD on a sparcstation 10 and an SGI O2..(*)
I do have a 266MHz Pentium thin client running an embedded OpenBSD firewall;
I wouldn't necessarily recommend that in your case as yours won't be fanless
or consume minimal power. I also have a 486 DX2-66 as a bittorrent box -
that actually runs NT 4. Much though I like OpenBSD at times, it's far more
effective to add the large disk driver and run utorrent.
If you must use your box it'll perform adequately for network based
operations - mail, web servers, pf, etc etc. It's a bit underpowered for
modern X although you should at least be able to run multiple X terms.
Compilation times on older kit tend to be painful.
(*) The O2 has some nice video hardware - which is useless in anything other
than Irix. The sparcstation has a decent boot monitor, and a cheap multiport
10Mb network card available - which is useless now ADSL goes faster than
10Mb. The O2 uses SCA disks which are still available, if a lot more
expensive than SATA. The sparcstation uses narrow SCSI disks which are now
defunct, loud and slow. There are workarounds for all of this, but running
modern kit really is a lot easier.
PK
