Sorry to switch subject:

Software RAID info for anyone who cares can be found at:

http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

Later Daze

This is actually part of it though it means that I will also have:

a tekram 290 40mb scsi controller with four st423451w (23GB 5400 rpm) hard drives. (big old drives, if you have never seen one, they weigh about seven pounds each)

#1. P-II 400, 256MB RAM, Voodoo 3, 10G 5400 RPM WD HD, 40G 7200 RPM ATA-100 WD HD, Promise ATA-100 controler,32X CD-ROM, SMC 10/100 NIC, 19" monitor. Currently running RH, Drake gets installed tonight, Slack tomorrow, Debian ater that. I thought I'd give 'em all a spin for a while

#2 (connected to #1 and cable modem via Netgear RT-314 router). P-III 500, 128MB RAM, STB Velocity, 5G 5400 RPM Maxtor HD, 40G 7200 RPM ATA-100 WD HD, Promise ATA-100 controller, 32X CD-ROM, Netgear FA-311 10/100 NIC, 17" monitor. Currently running Win 98 and NT; I'll probably throw a Linux distro on this one soon too.

Well..I got a bunch of shit goin on right now...I guess my home machines are what counts...cuz the work ones aren 't mine.....Although the IBM s390 mainframe running SuSe Linux 7.1 completely r0xorZ.

System #1 : My desktop

AMD Thunderbird 800@ 1400mhz (don't ask...involves a fishtank, some copper tubing, and my house's water pipes.) on an Asus A7V...coolest MoBo ever...cuz it has dual ATA100 and dual ATA66 with a 45 GB IBM DTLA100 drive, and a 30 GB IBM DTLA HDD.... I have a creative 12/10/32 cdrw, and a pioneer 10x DVD...I am runnig a soundblaster Live!Value, and a geforce 2mx (great card for $55) I have a 19" viewsonic monitor. The badboy has 640 (512+128 mb of pc133 running at pc150) This system is a whore, and I currnetly have it running quad-boot ...win98/suse 7.2/win2k advanced server/NT4.

seconly, I have my cs server(which I put together for like 200 bucks) running a duron 700, 256mb ram....adn a 1.5 gb HDD, it runs redhat 7.1.

System 3# the samba machine

386 25 mhz....running slackware....with 8 mb ram, and a 25 gb hdd..it server my mp3s/DivX rips...my whole family uses it to store mp3's and such.....and I stole it out of someones trash..so it roxorz

The sparc..... I got a sun sparcstation 4..not sure what I'm gonna do with it...prolly solaris......wanna get another so I can try clustering em..cuz that would be friggen neat.

Finally...
I have a p166 running Debian..one of the finest OS'es on earth. It does all the routing and firewalling I need...keeps people off my computers...and lets everything at the cable modem.

All these are connected by a 3com office connect 100baseT full duplex switch...and ethernet cabling that I managed to get into the walls...don't tell my dad..he hasn't figured it out yet.

Anyways...Slack, SuSe, and Debian roxor....and solaris is kinda neat..although I dont completely get it...rock on ....and thanks guys..cuz most of these machines were set up with lots of help from this forum....Thanks a bunch RAZ....you'r definately my dog....we can chill on the front porch and drink forties some day...haha...

Okay...way too long winded here....

1.7GHz P4, ASUS Mainboard, 1024MB RAM, 7200RPM HD, 8x4x32 CD-RW, EEPro 100, 32MB Nvidia Video Card, Creative Labs Soundblaster, dual boot Win2K & RH 7.0.

>Don't shoot the messenger.<

1.2Mhz Athlon, 512 of Crucial RAM, Abit KT7A-Raid MoBo, Some expensive as hell video card a friend who knows video cards said I should buy, Sony DVD. All of this managed by either RH 7.1 or SuSE 7.1, it seems I do a reinstall every week just to experiment with different stuff. More stuff on the way as this is my project box. The other 2 computers in the house are Window$ machines, they are running whatever Gateway sold me, who knows? Who cares?

Desktop Machine:

AMD Tbird 850 @ 1ghz
256mb ram
iwill kk266-r
30 gig WD ata 100
40 gig Maxtor ATA 66
visiontek GF3
hp cr-rw
win2k pro

server:

amd duron 750
256 mb ram
FIC az11
30 gig WD ata 100
voodoo3 3000 pci
win2k pro (linux is my favorite...but i want to run redhat 6.2..but i need to fgure some stuff out before i do it...)
SOON: Redhat 6.2 (hopefully )

all connected to a 100mbit linksys switch, connected to a linksys router/firewall on Cable.

This particular box is an Athlon 900 @ 900, using an ASUS A7V. About not overclocking, when we first put the fan on the processor, we put it on backwards, and started the burn in, so bad things, it wasn't connecting right. Not ONLY that, when we realized the mistake and tried to get the fan off, it took the majority of the plastic tab with it, so now that the fan's on the right way, it's not comin off. It still runs at about 51C (that's pretty aweful, I know, I'm afraid to screw with it). ANYWAYS
256MB of PC133 ram, CAS2, mind you. Basic SB PCI128 card, it really sucks and it's causing me problems, so I'm probably going to switch it out with my AWE64. 20gb Maxtor @7200, partitioned with 5gb for Red Hat 7.1 and 15gb for Win2k. I originally started out on Win2k, and I had to move it to the back of the drive with partition magic so I could install linux before the 8gb mark. Heh . I'm running RH 7.1 here, but righ t now I'm booted up in Win2k, I'm messing with sound card crud to fix my linux problems.
Sitting beside me is the currently idle RH 6.0 machine, it's a P166 with 64 MB of EDO ram (crusty old, I think 3 1/2 years, my first personal machine). It's running RH 6.0, and was originally my linux machine that I played with. When I built this machine, I made that old one my play box, and that was my first fun time with linux. I stopped using it and turned it off eventually to keep the heat down in my room.

In the other room is my dads really screwed up Gateway PIII450. I finally convinced him to let me fix it for him. We're building him a machine, should be buying him parts within a week, and he went ahead and got the hard drives. His puter's not important anyways.

Sitting in the corner of our study is the quiet NAT server. This poor thing is a P120 with 32 MB of ram, running Win98 SE purely because it had ICS. I've been wanting to replace it with a trusty IPCHAINS linux box for a while, and do some IP masq, but since my dad wouldn't know what to do if it had a problem ... He doesn't want to have to learn linux anyways, he's got too much to do.

In my closet, I've got the hulks of two worn out PCs, actually, come to think about it, I gave one of those away, it was pretty broken. I've also got a working Apple 840AV sitting in there that's just waiting to get mkLinux put on it. Floating around somewhere I've got an old Mac lap top, and an old Toshiba T2000 that I'm going to TRY to get some kind of small linux distrib on it. Wish me luck, that's going to be a lot of custom coding there.

The gateway, the server, a hub in my room are all stuck on a hub, and the linuxbox, my puter, and another cable for friends computers are attached to my hub. Sadly, we still run at 10 MB/s. I've got a 100 MB/s, but since my dad never got us a 10/100 hub, well ...

Whew, that got long really quick. There's my whole computer setup. I think that verifies me as a computermonger there.

-Infamous-Tim-


P.S. Anyone from Dallas, TX go to First Saturday? I'm curious to see if anyone knows about it/goes to it. I always manage to pick something up down there, in fact the server is a puter I bought for $15, switched out the power supply (it was 220V for europe), and it booted! Heh.

leo:/usr/src# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.38 (root@leo) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Mar 20 00:43:54 CET 2001

leo:/usr/src# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 486
model : 486 DX/2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 5
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme
bogomips : 24.93

leo:/usr/src# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 19271680 9723904 9547776 10895360 745472 3567616
Swap: 67571712 3604480 63967232
MemTotal: 18820 kB
MemFree: 9324 kB
MemShared: 10640 kB
Buffers: 728 kB
Cached: 3484 kB
SwapTotal: 65988 kB
SwapFree: 62468 kB

Isn't that sweet

PIII 933MHZ
MSI i815EP RAID
2x Kingston 256 PC133
2x Western Digital Caviar 30GB 7200RPM
Sony CDRW CRX160E
Nvidia Geforce II MX400 64MB
Relisys 19" Flat Diamondtron
Altec Lansing ACS-48

Dual boot on WIN2K and REDHAT 7.1

I have a Compaq presario 7594 with a 533MHz Intel Celeron processor. 128 megs of ram, a 7.5 GB hard drive, running windows 98. I will, however, be adding a Maxtor 30 GB, 7200 rpm hard drive and will be dual booting with Red Hat 6.1. Still don't know how to dual boot using the different hard drives. Still as confused as ever.


*****Colonel Panic*****