[BLU/Officers] Donations to the BLU

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

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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