My server that I’ve been working on all weekend works! Well, I was mostly working on the ISO generation scripts so that it’d be easy for me to generate ISOs to try to get that box to boot.
Apparently there’s a few things that make that computer die, one of them being IPMI, so that needed to not be anywhere in the kernel. Also it needed the old adaptec scsi driver not the new one. The new one only partially worked. Not sure what I’m going to do about that, may not have to do anything.
But it runs now! The next steps are to get it all set up to be my webserver and mailserver. Possibly even my router computer, but I’m not certain I want to do that. I’ve got sufficient network interfaces, and pci slots to do good stuff like that. I kinda like having my router seperate, but if I put it all on the same box, it’d be really easy to just turn everything else off during a power failure and I could simply just have the one main box going and still be on the intarwebs.
Aug 182007
