http://www.linuxrouter.org/ floppy disk Linux distro based on debian. No hard drive, use a 486 with a big heat sink and you don't need a CPU fan. Fewer moving parts = less power draw. Use the boa package to serve your web pages. Works great.
Read i386/doc/HOWTO/mini/RedHat-CD . basicly you need to update hdlist. Read the file, and it tells you exactly how to do it. - I had the same problem.:)
Ah - One more thing I forgot to mention. If it's ok to have the wait vs a drive failing; set your SCSI card, and the driver to allow at least 8 seconds for (recovered errors/Drive Command Timeouts). - That's how long these guys take to recover.
Check the drive mode pages. Things that might need to be changed: Write Cache Enable (WCE) should be 1, Read Cache Disable (RCD) should be 0, read/write retries (even at zero, drives have hidden retries, and some drives just then use a default number) try 0 if you want for speed, but drives will fall out when they are really good, and number of cache segments (many drives default to 3, you might do better with 2.
"The only computers now left out of this list would be those produced in secret by governments or other such entities." - not true. I've worked on a number of systems that would spec on the list and aren't there.. Why? A lot of major corporations don't like to tell competitors what they are using.
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Know what's sick? I'm done with Calculus forever (knock on wood)... Yet I kinda want one of these 49Gs... And What will the 49GX have?:)
Ha - (run-on time) If I had a life would I have just finished putting in the new 2.2.7 kernel after finding that the box I was working on didn't have as86 (part of bin86), so I had to go snag that too, at nearly 3am when I have to get up at 7am? I think not.. d'oh! I'm sure there is some really good reason I chose now to upgrade from 2.0.36... I'm just not sure what it was. I'll remember when I reboot that box. so there! If it makes you feel better - I'm not touching my firewall box's kernel. It stays at 2.0.36... I disagree with your comment that any version over 2.0 is adequate - If I remember correctly every version prior to 2.0.36 had some network vulnerabilities. (?) Are you sure you're not just mad that the last time you updated your kernel you forgot to run lilo before rebooting?;)
Go ahead and take a tech support job _if_ it's a good company.. It's a start. Do three things... 1: Work hard to the point that people know who you are and are impressed. 2: Keep looking for other work. 3: Keep learning - read, study, talk and play.
In the past 20 months I've had three title changes, four raises, and I get several job offers each month.:)
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http://www.linuxrouter.org/ floppy disk Linux distro based on debian. No hard drive, use a 486 with a big heat sink and you don't need a CPU fan. Fewer moving parts = less power draw. Use the boa package to serve your web pages. Works great.
Read i386/doc/HOWTO/mini/RedHat-CD . basicly you need to update hdlist. Read the file, and it tells you exactly how to do it. - I had the same problem. :)
Ah - One more thing I forgot to mention. If it's ok to have the wait vs a drive failing; set your SCSI card, and the driver to allow at least 8 seconds for (recovered errors/Drive Command Timeouts). - That's how long these guys take to recover.
If they are running fibre drives in a RAID 5 config, I figure they aren't a moron, and are running on a UPS.
Check the drive mode pages. Things that might need to be changed: Write Cache Enable (WCE) should be 1, Read Cache Disable (RCD) should be 0, read/write retries (even at zero, drives have hidden retries, and some drives just then use a default number) try 0 if you want for speed, but drives will fall out when they are really good, and number of cache segments (many drives default to 3, you might do better with 2.
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#!/bin/bsh ./i386 ./i386 ./i386 ./image.iso \
chmod -R 755
chown -R root:root
cd
mkisofs -b images/boot.img -c boot.catalog \
-o
-J -r -T \
-p Your_Name \
-P www.redhat.com \
-A RedHat_Linux_6.0 \
-V RH60 \
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Good luck.
"The only computers now left out of this list would be those produced in secret by governments or other such entities." - not true. I've worked on a number of systems that would spec on the list and aren't there.. Why? A lot of major corporations don't like to tell competitors what they are using.
Know what's sick? I'm done with Calculus forever (knock on wood)... Yet I kinda want one of these 49Gs... And What will the 49GX have? :)
Ha - (run-on time) If I had a life would I have just finished putting in the new 2.2.7 kernel after finding that the box I was working on didn't have as86 (part of bin86), so I had to go snag that too, at nearly 3am when I have to get up at 7am? I think not.. d'oh! I'm sure there is some really good reason I chose now to upgrade from 2.0.36... I'm just not sure what it was. I'll remember when I reboot that box. so there! If it makes you feel better - I'm not touching my firewall box's kernel. It stays at 2.0.36... I disagree with your comment that any version over 2.0 is adequate - If I remember correctly every version prior to 2.0.36 had some network vulnerabilities. (?) Are you sure you're not just mad that the last time you updated your kernel you forgot to run lilo before rebooting? ;)
Go ahead and take a tech support job _if_ it's a good company.. It's a start. Do three things... 1: Work hard to the point that people know who you are and are impressed. 2: Keep looking for other work. 3: Keep learning - read, study, talk and play.
In the past 20 months I've had three title changes, four raises, and I get several job offers each month.