On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:27, Travis Roy wrote: > Either that or just open up the case, plug in a normal CD-Rom drive, > install, remove drive, put in rack... Or get a USB CD drive and do it > that way..
Actually, that won't work. We order one of the HP servers (big mistake, I hate the thing)... Anyway, it only seems to recognize the HP cdrom/floppy combo thing that has a funky connector on it. The problem might have been that there was no IDE bus available, I don't recall as it has been about a year, but I do remember that we couldn't just install a "normal" CD ROM to boot/load from. To address the original question... 1U servers are expensive, even on the cheap end. A 1U case alone is usually $250-$450 dollars, then you have the cost of the components/etc. If this is just for personal use, I would suggest maybe getting a Cobalt Raq4, and run with that (~$350), or get an older Cobalt (2 or 3 maybe) for about $200ish, scrap the system board (could probably re-sell that on ebay for $100) and mount a mini-itx board instead. You'd have a nice 1U box for maybe $400, as long as you don't mind doing a little metal work on the case, and grafting on a new power supply connector. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
