[BLU/Officers] Donations to the BLU

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I left the drive in the cabinet at NEDV. As I recall, pegasus wouldn't
even boot if that drive was connected.



On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>> > Boston Linux and Unix
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