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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:27 +0200 |
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Momesso Andrea <momesso.andrea@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware |
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> (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) |
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> that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, |
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> groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, |
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> and a mailing list manager). |
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> The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing |
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> fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important |
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> documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. |
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> I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have |
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> a separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things |
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> while trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. |
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> It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if |
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> it fits their needs. |
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> I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this |
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> weekend, so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know |
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> for sure it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade |
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> if needed. |
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> Here are my questions: |
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> - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? |
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> - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware |
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> (expecially the disk) is fine? |
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> - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for |
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> the ppc? |
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> - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on |
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> nfs shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe |
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> just the distfiles? |
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> - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? |
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> - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro |
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> I fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? |
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> Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? |
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> Thank yo in advance for your answers. |
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If you are round a university, I would actually suggest asking around |
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and seeing if there are old P3 workstations being thrown out. With a |
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little TLC, gentoo runs nicely on such hardware, especially as a |
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headless server in a corner. Such a box would also offer a LOT more |
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flexibility than an old laptop would, and they will probably be |
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delighted to get rid of it! |
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Rob. |
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(Has a little collection of such "rescued" machines.) |
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