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- Subject: [BLU/Officers] Donations to the BLU
- From: gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:45:15 -0400
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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. > > > > -- > > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > > Boston Linux and Unix > > PGP key id: 537C5846 > > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Officers mailing list > > Officers at blu.org > > http://pegasus.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers > > > > > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abreauj at gmail.com > GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > _______________________________________________ > Officers mailing list > Officers at blu.org > http://pegasus.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers > -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 ~
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