<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> First, for those interested in the practical exercise and who have a laptop to bring, I'm thinking of devoting the second half of the meeting to the practical exercise so that anyone who wants to be there but not participate can leave early.<br> <br> For those who wish to participate, rather than follow along as I go through it, what I expect you to have is:<br> <ul> <li>Virtualbox for your platform of choice</li> <li>A CentOS 5.4 DVD image (iso file)</li> </ul> We'll go through the whole install and package setup during the meeting, and possible be able to get the mail system configured in about an hour. Don't burn the image to a DVD, it's much faster mounted as an image. This may seem trite, but personal experience has shown that no matter how much you expect to get the basics done in advance, the time manages to vanish. We'll have some DIY bits (Apache, MySQL, CMS, etc.) before the next meeting and then we'll test it out at the April meeting. We will go on to some more advanced configurations after that.<br> <br> Second, I will be posting this on the website after I get the new one up. It's still on track for the weekend. I had just realized that while I'm doing this, I can retire the old box as well, so I have a 4u rackable system available for anyone who wants it (the drives will be wiped):<br> <ul> <li>Dual PII-450 processors</li> <li>1GB RAM</li> <li>Hardware RAID (Mirroring) up to 80GB IDE drives, I'll even provide a pair of matched 40GB drives. The current one is a 20 and the matched drive failed. Attempts to locate a suitable replacement have been futile.<br> </li> </ul> output from lspci:<br> <blockquote><tt>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge</tt><br> <tt>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge</tt><br> <tt>00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2</tt><br> <tt>00:0c.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2</tt><br> <tt>00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)</tt><br> <tt>00:12.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)</tt><br> <tt>00:12.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)</tt><br> <tt>00:12.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)</tt><br> <tt>00:12.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)</tt><br> <tt>00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5480 (rev 23)</tt><br> <tt>01:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21150 (rev 06)</tt><br> </blockquote> <br> output from free:<br> <blockquote><tt> total used free shared buffers cached</tt><br> <tt>Mem: 1034536 980852 53684 0 101436 91340</tt><br> <tt>-/+ buffers/cache: 788076 246460</tt><br> <tt>Swap: 2031608 14996 2016612</tt><br> </blockquote> <br> and from cpuinfo:<br> <blockquote><tt>processor : 0</tt><br> <tt>vendor_id : GenuineIntel</tt><br> <tt>cpu family : 6</tt><br> <tt>model : 7</tt><br> <tt>model name : Pentium III (Katmai)</tt><br> <tt>stepping : 2</tt><br> <tt>cpu MHz : 447.802</tt><br> <tt>cache size : 512 KB</tt><br> <tt>fdiv_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>hlt_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>f00f_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>coma_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>fpu : yes</tt><br> <tt>fpu_exception : yes</tt><br> <tt>cpuid level : 2</tt><br> <tt>wp : yes</tt><br> <tt>flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse</tt><br> <tt>bogomips : 896.11</tt><br> <br> <tt>processor : 1</tt><br> <tt>vendor_id : GenuineIntel</tt><br> <tt>cpu family : 6</tt><br> <tt>model : 7</tt><br> <tt>model name : Pentium III (Katmai)</tt><br> <tt>stepping : 2</tt><br> <tt>cpu MHz : 447.802</tt><br> <tt>cache size : 512 KB</tt><br> <tt>fdiv_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>hlt_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>f00f_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>coma_bug : no</tt><br> <tt>fpu : yes</tt><br> <tt>fpu_exception : yes</tt><br> <tt>cpuid level : 2</tt><br> <tt>wp : yes</tt><br> <tt>flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse</tt><br> <tt>bogomips : 895.30</tt><br> </blockquote> <br> It has been running the website and mail services for more years than I care to think about and I plan on replacing it with a new(er) 1U box. It had 12 domains running on it at one point, along with related services, so it can handle the requirements for a small business or some such thing. <br> <br> Scott<br> </body> </html>
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