UFies Rebuilding Nicely
So it looks like all my problems were caused by a buggy kernel or buggy drives in the boot CD. I feel like such a dumbass for not trying a different CD when I was there. I booted up on a Knoppix CD and had full speed on IDE on the motherboard and no problems doing things on the SCSI. I started building the new OS last night and it’s busy doing a stage 2 install as I type this. Doing it nice and fast as well I might add, SMP kicks ass!
There’s still lots of work to be done once the base system is installed, installing all the apps, finding all the perl modules, reconfiguring apache, mailman, mysql, etc etc etc to get things back to a usable state. Probably another couple of nights getting things going, and then, the hardware, software, OS and every other deity and minor deity out there willing, a working system. If I’m lucky I can get a system that works for the majority of the time back in before next week (knocking crossed fingers on wood), in at least enough of a state that only little tweaks and corrections are needed.
In theory….
Glad to hear all is going well. This is the third time I’ve seen bad media (or CDROM) cause wiered problems. For me it was the CD rom once, and at work it happend to a guy, and now you… Guess verifying the media is a good thing to do!;)
PS, you thing dualies are good. When we upgrade to a Dual Xeon with hyperthreading we’ll have 4! š
Nice…
Would it make sense to have two (perhaps smaller) servers, one for web/mail and the other for databases? Or some other n-tier or load balancing mix…
I’ve been setting up some database app stuff on a b rand new Dual Xeon, which as you say shows up as 4 CPUs. With 2 GB RAM and 6 SCSI disks it flies… I like it when customers have money to spend š
That’s what I’m waiting for the ufies/tdiclub server… We should be flying for a while then!;)
It would make some sense IMHO, but that increases the montly costs… Worth a bit of investigation though.