Linux upgrades
Feb. 24th, 2007 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisMy old Linux box was suffering hardware problems; I've ordered a replacement motherboard but I was planning to upgrade the hardware anyway to install the latest SUSE/Novell Linux ver 10; we're deploying this version of Linux on servers at my office so this seemed like a good opportunity to do some self-training on this platform.
The refurbished 2.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM Pentium 4 box I bought off eBay arrived yesterday. My initial efforts to install the Linux OS on the hardware failed for a while before I ultimately figured out that (a) the machine's floppy drive was dead, (b) the CD-ROMs were burned incorrectly so the machine couldn't boot from them as needed, and (c) the BIOS wasn't capable of seeing the entire 250 GB hard drive so I had to install the kernel in an 8 GB initial disk slice so it could boot far enough to see the rest of the drive.
Now that I'm past those hurdles, I really like what I've seen so far. The configuration was fairly easy and the new beast now sees the network and recognizes my USB devices (the old Red Hat version was too hold to handle USB correctly). I still need to install the latest Apache httpd server, Sendmail, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Majordomo and Majorcool, not to mention copy over my personal directories and web pages from the old beast; I should have the rest of the configuration done in the next couple of hours.
The refurbished 2.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM Pentium 4 box I bought off eBay arrived yesterday. My initial efforts to install the Linux OS on the hardware failed for a while before I ultimately figured out that (a) the machine's floppy drive was dead, (b) the CD-ROMs were burned incorrectly so the machine couldn't boot from them as needed, and (c) the BIOS wasn't capable of seeing the entire 250 GB hard drive so I had to install the kernel in an 8 GB initial disk slice so it could boot far enough to see the rest of the drive.
Now that I'm past those hurdles, I really like what I've seen so far. The configuration was fairly easy and the new beast now sees the network and recognizes my USB devices (the old Red Hat version was too hold to handle USB correctly). I still need to install the latest Apache httpd server, Sendmail, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Majordomo and Majorcool, not to mention copy over my personal directories and web pages from the old beast; I should have the rest of the configuration done in the next couple of hours.
