Ahmed No you do not need the smartstart CD. Although, depending on your hardware there may be compaq drivers needed which could be on that CD. Drivers can also be downloaded from the web. They may not be necessary unless there are some uncommon proprietary devices in the PC's.
Tonight's meeting is LUG/IP (Princeton Group) and they have a presenter tonight so I don't know how much time we can devote to Linux installs. But come early and bring the computer and we'll see. HAMLUG (Hamilton group) may be a better place for that sort of thing since people always bring hardware to play with and they are used to spending significant time on that. Have you settled on a specific distribution of Linux that you want to install? There are dozens of opinions on which is the right one. I'm a Redhat guy but Debian may be better for beginners, workstations and hobby work. Or SUSE or ... (this list is long). "By Linux-9" you may mean Redhat-9. If you have the CD's for that, bring them along. You might want to gather some opinions on what is the best distro for YOU to go with and think about them for a while. Although you can always change course on that and install a second distro at a later time. (dual boot magic). Wayne --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thankz a million Wayne and J.D Abolins for the > overview on servers. I see that > i have ton's of research to do. I will save my > questions for todays meeting. > > At the moment i'm waiting on a smartstart CD from > Compaq which should be coming > in a few dayz. Do i really need the smartstart cd > to wipe the hard drive and > install linux 9? If not, i will bring it along with > me tonight. > > Ahmed..... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Quoting Wayne Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Servers aren't necessarily different from PC's. > There > > are some concepts to go over here. "Server" can > refer > > to any machine that provides a "service", it can > refer > > to a singular process (such as the httpd server or > > file server running on any machine) or it can > refer to > > a singular machine. The term is often over used > and > > underdefined. It can be a concept, a process or an > > appliance (single box). I guess that's the first > > lesson. :) > > > > Teaching what you need to know about servers? > Well, > > there's no end to what you can know about servers. > > Servers serve services. That opens up a lot of > > territory. One machine can be a server for some > things > > and a client for other things at the same time. > > > > The focus on what to do with servers and how to > manage > > them changes over time. Industrial servers used to > be > > big expensive machines and it paid to hire people > > (like myself) to monitor them, manage them and > tweak > > them for maximun efficiency (to save hardware > costs of > > hundreds of thousands of $). Now machines are so > cheap > > it becomes more cost effective to buy a few extra > > machines and lay off people like me because, even > > though the machines are configured badly and are > > inefficient it's always cheaper to add more boxes > than > > manage and tweak the ones you have. > > > > And now there are clusters, so that poor > > configurations can propogate themselves with great > > rapidity! > > > > I'm not really bitter, just amused. It's like what > we > > use to have to do with assembler language in tight > > spaces that people now do with visual basic and no > > need to care about wasted resources. What's a few > > extra megs of memory out of a half a gig of ram > > (megabytes of ram didn't use to exist! ). > > > > So the whole idea of what a server is and what it > does > > transforms over time. > > > > Now that I've complicated the issue and spread it > > across decades, what is you'd like to know? > > > > Wayne > > > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi Wayne, I subscribed to your user group last > week. > > > I brought a couple > > > servers (Compaq Proliant 2500R and 6500R) from > the > > > materials Exchange here in > > > Trenton. While i was there a gentlemen by the > name > > > of Sean referred me to the > > > hamlug. I'm really a newbie to anything that > has to > > > do with servers > > > considering that its totally different than your > > > regular pc. I was wondering > > > if it was possible for you guy to teach me what > i > > > need to know about servers. > > > I also need to know when you guys will have your > > > next installfest. > > > I will attend you next meeting which is this > > > wednesday, hope to see you there. > > > Thankz for your time and consideration, hope to > hear > > > from you soon. > > > > > > Take Care, > > > Ahmed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > > > Quoting Wayne Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Jeff, > > > > You've opened up a topic which a few of us > have > > > > discussed but not opened up to the group as a > > > whole. A > > > > couple of us are assembling an online server > that > > > > hamlug can use (when it's ready) and others > have > > > > offered hosting services. Now I'm starting to > > > think a > > > > hamlug virtual server project would be in > order to > > > > load share between several mirrors and provide > a > > > path > > > > to our site even if any server goes down. Does > > > anyone > > > > want to work on that? > > > > wayne > > > > > > > > --- Jeffrey Yep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The offer for web hosting from Train Yard > > > Software > > > > > is free. We of course > > > > > should plan for a backup incase that offer > ever > > > gets > > > > > retracted. > > > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "Wayne Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:30 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just curious... > > > > > > who is paying for hamlug's web hosting > > > services. > > > > > And > > > > > > who will sign and pay if/when we switch > > > providers? > > > > > > Wayne > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved > product > > > search > > > > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product > search > > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! 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