New server for me!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:12 pm

I've been wanting to have a server for very long and finally it's almost done. building is the easy part, finances is the hardest.

But things have been going well so I ordered one part at a time and now it's all up and running.

- Asus A7V600
- AMD athlon XP 2700+
- 512MB DDR RAM
- lots of fans and cold cathod lights
- ATI radeon 7000MB PCI video card
- floppy/cd-rom
- 1.44MB of total disk space with access to read only 700MB space.

The hard drive did not come in yet, but it should not be long. It will be a 120GB drive and I'll put Red Hat on it. This will also be used for backups since I currently don't backup my hard drive all that much, and I should.

I went a little cheap on the ram, but this motherboard has 3 slots so I might add more later on, and it also has sata so I could have sata drives too. So there's lot of room for expansion.

Now my main goal is to try and get wine to work so I can put UD on it.

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brandon · Post by **brandon** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:01 am

That might not work Red.

I can't even run Notepad under WINE on Knoppix, so you might have a time getting UD to Run.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:04 am

Yeah it won't be easy. Tried it quickly before and it did run, but I could not access it because there's no systray. So I did not know if it was doing anything, or could not look at the percentage.

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brandon · Post by **brandon** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:07 am

There's some things you have to type in order to be able to get ot to run.

Megaspaz managed to get Kazaa running under Linux, so you might want to ask him???

BTW, are you using RH8 or 9????

Or Fedora????

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:22 pm

Using 8.0.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:59 pm

Did you check for Linux drivers for the video card before buying it?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:01 pm

Actually I never even thought of drivers, I just got lucky, it worked right away. What did not work is the onboard 1000mbps lan.

Oh well, I'm not planing to upgrade my network to gigabit any time soon. I can probably download drivers for it though. I always keep the instructions and stuff that comes with a mobo, so I'd know exactly what to search for. But now I just put in a 100mps card.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:11 pm

something to watch for is that even thou the lan is gigbit lan if it uses the PCI bus its wouldnt be much faster then 100mbps due to PCI bottlenecks.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:13 pm

Never thought of that. I'll have to check the manual to see if it shows how it's setup. It's a pretty decent board in exeption of the AGP so I would assume it's on it's own bu`s or something.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:18 pm

I only know that Intels ICH5 south brigde has its Gigbit lan built into it avoid that problem and its rare to see, but with PCI Express showing up soon it wont be as big of an issue due to the fact it will be able to handle a gigbit lan.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:24 pm

How will that work anyway? will it be the same type of slot or will it be different? Sort of like the step from ISA to PCI I suppose.
Speaking of ISA, I have this video card in a box and it's almost 2 feet long.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:35 pm

Ya it will be most mobo will drop the AGP slot and one or two PCI slots for extra PCI Express slots the thing with PCI Express is that there is different slots for different reasons. a 16x slot will be for video cards, smaller slots for things that require less bandwith. so mobo makes can design the boards for different users: some people could run 2 video cards, ultra fast RAID arrays, anything due to the huge bandwith afforded. the problem is the if there is tons of different sizes of card 16x 12x 8x 4x some people may lack a slot they will need for fututre expansion.

here is a link to learn more PCI-Express

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:37 pm

This is probably why it's so hard to find a mobo where a typical AGP card will fit in. I noticed there's like 2 different AGP types, since two mobos in a row that I bought the video card did not fit and I had to use a PCI one.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:57 pm

Naw its that AGP has changed 4 times over over almost 7/8 years to keep up with graphic cards. changing a slot that much always causes problems hence why PCI is the same pretty much. The problem is that its way to slow. Thats the beauty with PCI exress you just make the slot bigger for more bandwith.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:11 pm

wohoo my 120gb hard drive arrived already. I can go pick it up tomorow.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:29 pm

Sweet I remebr my first HDD was 540MB thats just a tad larger

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:12 pm

So far so good. Been working on the server most of tonight after doing my home work. Got samba,ftp, http/php/mysql running smooth. Now I'm working on VNC and I'll be all set to hook it up to the main router downstairs.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:47 pm

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:04 am

Now I only wish my isp would allow external web servers!

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