[BLU/Officers] Donations to the BLU

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks. In the past I've had difficulty with some RHEL installs here at
work, and I have a hard drive that is reporting that it will fail in the
future that contains the isos. Also, back at the installfest a few years
ago, I found that some systems could not be installed from a DVD even though
it had a DVD drive. Another thing I occasionally do is to use gparted or
parted magic, or even UBCD totally delete the partition table. I use UBCD to
wipe the drive, usually not when I am planning to install. I've also found
that anaconda is quirky.

Additionally, I'd like to see you try to do something with the 72GB drive I
gave you. While it came out of a dead system, it was working before the
system died. (That system is one of the Intel systems and we can't even get
a post on it).

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:42 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> The one Ron & John donated is basically a vanilla PC in a 3U
> rackmount case. It has a pair of SCA drives with adapters that
> convert the 80-pin scsi connector to 68-pin scsi + power, and from
> there to an Adaptec PCI scsi card.
>
> When I let it boot off the hard drive, it boots Windows Server 2003
> Enterprise.
>
> When I booted off a CentOS install DVD last night, it began the
> installation process, but at the point where I believe it was trying to
> detect the disks, it gave a strange error about /dev/mapper and then
> rebooted. I tried it three times with the same results.
>
> I'll try a LiveCD to see if I can get any useful information that might
> help identify the problem.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > Recently one of the members of vhfcn suggested I get a PayPal account so
> > members can make donations. JABR set one up a few years ago so he could
> > buy stuff. Since I made that announcement on vhfcn we've already
> > received several donations. The guys on that list were talking about
> > buying the BLU a new server. Personally we currently have 3 fully
> > functional servers, (Pegasus, Vranix, and the one John and Ron gave us).
> > Personally I would not mind spending some money to buy a low cost NAS to
> > use as a backup server. Advantage is that we can take frequent snapshots
> > using rsnapshot or some other similar backup. The WD MyBook is a
> > reasonably decent system for a backup device but it is very, very slow.
> > While I like having an offsite, the past 2 server failures also had
> > backup failures.
> >
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