Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: > > > > > It is also more > > > > > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separ

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: > > > > It is also more > > > > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separate > > > > traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > Here me English is lacking, atleast I can't parse the above. ... > Yeah, I did say something weird there :) > ...sniped the explanation Okee, I see. In my experience most

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: > > > It is also more > > > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separate > > > traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more > > > headaches than I can guess at

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: > > It is also more > > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separate > > traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more > > headaches than I can guess at at present. > > > > Hi Mark, > > Given that you are put

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Lee W
> It is also more > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separate > traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more > headaches than I can guess at at present. > Hi Mark, Given that you are putting all this in a rack, Have you considered using a KVM sw

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: >> I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options doesn't let me >> interact with lilo, it just spits the information out to the serial port. > >This I find har

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > .. > > The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X > > terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack > > computer being meant to be reboo

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Carel Fellinger said: > > This I find hard to believe, did you try to send a break? According to > the lilo docs one needs to send a break instead of pressing shift to get > lilo's attention. no, haven't tried that:) thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > > a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the "serial" option > > for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that > > Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: .. > The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X > terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack > computer being meant to be rebooted regularly as I switch between > various o/s, how reliable

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the "serial" option > for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that > Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that it is one I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options

Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I'm looking at putting a couple rack mounted systems in as a reorganisation of my computing environment - one an SMP IA32 type system (we'll see how many CPUs make sense) running as a file and computing server with Debian GNU/Linux, and the other likely only one CPU at present to run as an experime