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Re: Server installation photos
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 7 Mar 2004 02:10:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Four hours in, we powered up the systems. Yay, they came up! We
> > proceeded to configure the BIOS, and then began the long software
> > installation process. For the most part, the software installation
> > went smoothly. Configuring the RAID1 driver was a challenge, however,
> > but we managed to get it going.
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> 4 hours? Not bad!
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.
> 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 try very hard)
That's just what came pre-installed on the disks. Matthew overwrote it
with his magic installation of love.
--Todd
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Server installation photos
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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