[ldm-users] Weather.admin.niu.edu down...and looking for ideas.

[Gerry Creager]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> Look at www.centos.org for "what's CentOS?"  It's RedHat Enterprise with the 
>> serial numbers scratched off.  Tends to be stable for up to 2 years before a 
>> new release.  Which also means it can get stale sometimes. Security fixes are 
>> put out as needed, but radical changes are held down.
> 
> Which is both good and bad. What if a package I use isn't available?
> I need things like Icecast, Darkice to stream web audio. I can't just run 
> GEMPAK, and everything just works(tm) with Redhat, until it crashes. :-)

Tarballs are your friend, and there are a couple of other repositories 
that you can use that have a bunch of the precompiled extras.

I tend to single-purpose my LDM/Gempak systems, so I don't ever have to 
stream audio:-)

>> Build your system out with 2 physical drives and allow OS to build on one 
>> (usually the smaller) and keep important data on the other one. Tell the 
>> installer to only put Linux on the smaller drive.  After you've  built the 
>> system modify /etc/fstab for appropriate mount points.
>>
>> gerry
>>
> 
> I was just told that the OS has problems with that hard drive at 3 
> GB/sec and that I should jumper it down to 1.5 GB/sec. Hmmm...

Fiber channel or SAS?

gerry
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