On Tuesday 18 December 2007 14:39:42 Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> > Frank Cox wrote on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:49 -0600:
> >> A spare computer that can be swapped in to replace any of 4 other
> >> computers without requiring a lot of setup between "the main machine
> >> died" and "th
Frank Cox wrote:
This was to be my point exactly ... what good does a machine that can
boot up into a file server with last months data or a web server with
last months data be if the current server just died?
If you have a backup system in place with the ability to push certain
directories on
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:39:42 -0600
Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This was to be my point exactly ... what good does a machine that can
> boot up into a file server with last months data or a web server with
> last months data be if the current server just died?
>
> If you have a back
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:49 -0600:
>
>> A spare computer that can be swapped in to replace any of 4 other computers
>> without requiring a lot of setup between "the main machine died" and "the
>> spare is now online."
>
> But what about the data? What is a "
One good thing about a spare UNPLUGGED machine is in case of a lightning
strike. We had a customer site get hit by or near by lighting. The unplugged
spare wasn't connect in any way shape or form to anything. No power cord, no
network connections, nothing. After the strike, they were havin
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 21:20 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I want to set up a multiple "mode" computer with four separate Centos
> installations on it. The objective here is to have a "spare computer" that I
> can boot up into any of four "modes" depending on what I'm swapping it in for
> a
> the mome
Frank Cox wrote on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:49 -0600:
> A spare computer that can be swapped in to replace any of 4 other computers
> without requiring a lot of setup between "the main machine died" and "the
> spare is now online."
But what about the data? What is a "web sevrer" or a "file server"
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From: "Frank Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CentOS mailing list"
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:42:56 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
Subject: Re: [CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning
On
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:32:37 +1000 (EST)
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You have another computer, which, I presume, is exactly the same as the
> 'live' one ?
In this application, I have five computers. Four of them are in use, running
24/7, doing four different jobs ranging
Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:44:38 +1000 (EST)
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you thought about virtualization ? What hardware are you planning on
running this on ?
It's a new Intel Pentium Core 2 machine.
I don't want to complicate this thing any mor
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From: "Frank Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: centos@centos.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:55:49 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
Subject: Re: [CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:48:57 +1000 (EST)
&
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:48:57 +1000 (EST)
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't understand what you are trying to achieve. Some sort of (poor mans)
> redundancy at the hard disk level
A spare computer that can be swapped in to replace any of 4 other computers
without requiring
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From: "Frank Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CentOS mailing list"
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:43:08 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
Subject: Re: [CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:52:5
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:52:59 Frank Cox wrote:
> It's a new Intel Pentium Core 2 machine.
>
> I don't want to complicate this thing any more than I have to. I want to
> be able to put this machine in the corner and tell the guy who owns the
> place that if his webserver quits, he can put th
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:52:59 -0600
Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't want to complicate this thing any more than I have to. I want to be
> able to put this machine in the corner and tell the guy who owns the place
> that if his webserver quits, he can put the spare online and hit "1
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:44:38 +1000 (EST)
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you thought about virtualization ? What hardware are you planning on
> running this on ?
It's a new Intel Pentium Core 2 machine.
I don't want to complicate this thing any more than I have to. I want
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From: "Frank Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: centos@centos.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:20:01 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane
Subject: [CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning
I want to set up a multiple "mode"
I want to set up a multiple "mode" computer with four separate Centos
installations on it. The objective here is to have a "spare computer" that I
can boot up into any of four "modes" depending on what I'm swapping it in for a
the moment. For example, I want to be able to boot it up as a webserve
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