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Phase 1 of installation of the new LUGNET servers is a success The new servers arrived yesterday in a pair of giant cardboard boxes... (2 URLs) ...which, though mildly annoying, did give us some much needed exercise. We went up one at a time. (2 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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(...) 4 hours? Not bad! One Q though... RH9 aka Shrike? It's support is about to be dropped by RedHat in 2 months, making it a lot harder to keep it up-to-date security wise (I know about the Fedora project, but it's not the same even though they (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) 7 hours total... We started at 6pm with the hardware and stopped (not finished) at 1am, because that's what time the last bus left and we didn't feel like taking cabs home. (...) That's just what came pre-installed on the disks. Matthew (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (all kinds of snip) (...) That was great...thanks for an entertaining account! There's nothing like shiny new toys to unwrap! --Dave (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Errr, yeah. More precisely: the servers will actually run BU Linux, which is based on a Red Hat Linux 9 core. For technical reasons which I can get into if someone really wants, it was easier in this case to use the RHL 9 install disks and (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I thought they were all women. What made you think they were all guys? @8^) Great photos, Todd. -Brendan (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd- Thanks for the documentary on the server installation. You have quite a dedicated crew! -Ted (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) We went through 12 pounds of pizza, 4 liters of Coke, 3 pots of coffee, 15 Odwalla bars, almost 300 pounds of DinoSnaps, and over 1800 pounds of ferns, moss, and horsetail rushes! --Todd (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, FTX)
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