On Monday 03 September 2018 15:13:06 Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be
> recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work; CentOS 6 32-bit
> might not.
It previously had Centos 6 on it, but I wanted to avoid that as it now has a
limited
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I had not considered the lack of energy efficiency. The server has
> a MSI MS-9628 board with a Pentium M processor, and the one modern
> 4TB HDD.
This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be
recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work; CentO
On Sep 3, 2018, at 2:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> ...Pentium M processor...tiny fan...assumed power consumption would be low.
You could well be right, but I’m a fan of taking measurements over guessing. :)
If you were in the US, I’d recommend either of these from personal testing:
http
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:20:20 Warren Young wrote:
> You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
>
> “Old Pentium,” as someone else said, can mean anything back to 1993, but “4
> TB drive” suggests something far newer than that.
>
> I ask because that affects the expected energy draw of the serve
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:09:13 Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
> We use mysql as database backend for bacula, and it becomes heavy loaded,
> over time especially wenn restoring respectively generating filelists. So,
> not sure if such old CPU provides enough compute power ...
This isn't the dire
My recommendation, take it for what its worth:
32-bit distros to me are a short lived proposition IMO.
Example: I'm running Centos 6, 32-bit version. I recently ran into an issue
where a package
(clamav) started using a 64-bit library for decompression of files. End result,
end of scanning
for
Le 31/08/2018 à 16:29, Gary Stainburn a écrit :
> Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
I'd say whatever bone-headed distro you're comfortable with.
Personally, I'd use 32-bit Slackware 14.2 without even giving it a
second thought.
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Warren Young wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
>>
>> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
>> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
>> processor in it.
>
> You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
>
> “O
J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> On 31/08/18 16:47, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>> Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>
>
>
>> "Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993!
>
> They were the ones nicknamed "i586.01" see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
>
Which a lot of u
On 8/31/18 12:09 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
Am 31.08.2018 um 16:29 schrieb Gary Stainburn :
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to
be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
it.
We use mysql as database backen
On Aug 31, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish
> to
> be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
> it.
You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
“Old Pentium,” as someone else
> Am 31.08.2018 um 16:29 schrieb Gary Stainburn :
>
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish
> to
> be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
> it.
We use mysql as database backend for bacula, and it becomes heavy loaded,
On 31/08/18 16:47, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> "Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993!
They were the ones nicknamed "i586.01" see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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install ports. The two come hand-in-hand.
There’s no confusion. The maintainers, the admins, are far and few between on
FreeBSD. The very reason I’m here is due to to just that. That, cannot be
said of the Linu
On 8/31/18 10:47 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, mark wrote:
CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but make sure it
includes networking).
Please note that I installed CentOS 6, just a few months ago, on an HP
Netbook from '09, and it runs perfectly well.
mark
On 8/31/18 10:12 AM, Bee.Lists wrote:
I’m fresh out of FreeBSD world. Depending on the port, it can be easy and
predictable, or an absolute confusion-fest.
FreeBSD ports should not be confused with FreeBSD system. Each of ports
is maintained by different maintainer(s), some of them get ob
On Friday 31 August 2018 16:35:54 mark wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
> > wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
> > processor in it.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
On 8/31/18 9:52 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2018 15:44:53 Valeri Galtsev wrote:
I would use FreeBSD (and I do use FreeBSD for bacula, now bareos backup
server and storage hosts), it has really small "footprint", and it is
quite widespread.
Incidentally, I was using bacula
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
> processor in it.
"Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993!
The least demanding distributions I know a
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, mark wrote:
CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but make sure it
includes networking).
Please note that I installed CentOS 6, just a few months ago, on an HP
Netbook from '09, and it runs perfectly well.
mark "see? I didn't say anything about systemd..
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
> processor in it.
>
> Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but m
I’m fresh out of FreeBSD world. Depending on the port, it can be easy and
predictable, or an absolute confusion-fest.
> On Aug 31, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> Thanks for this. I haven't looked at FreeBSD since the 1990's or there
> abouts,
> but I'll give it a look.
On Friday 31 August 2018 15:44:53 Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> I would use FreeBSD (and I do use FreeBSD for bacula, now bareos backup
> server and storage hosts), it has really small "footprint", and it is
> quite widespread.
>
> Incidentally, I was using bacula for very long time, but recently I
> s
On 8/31/18 9:29 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to
be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
it.
Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
I would use FreeBSD (and I do use FreeBS
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to
be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in
it.
Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it?
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