I got a computer (no hard drives) from Wil that I tried to power up to see what CPU & RAM it had but it's not sending any signal to the monitor. No POST, but the fan comes on & LEDs light. It has a wacky solenoid and switch that I assume is to not allow you to work on it with the case open or not allow you open the case while the power is on or maybe it's a security feature to prevent tampering. Anyway it's a Compaq and the case is a little rough to work in. I think it's a P166, which is a bit slow even for a distro server. It has three DIMM sticks, one of unknown size, one 64 Mb, one 32 Mb. It currently has a brand new 52x CD-RW in the case. I have a 2Gig SCSI disk, and some external SCSI cases that have needed a good home for a while. I suspect that our best bet for getting a lot of disk space is to use SCSI. With SCSI we can more disks, even if they are small and if need be I think we can use multiple SCSI controllers. If we have parts for one or two machines that would be great but three is probably overkill. I was going to put this in the software thread but it's pretty closely related to hardware. Is this a good use for LVM? Since we will probably have various sized disks and the data on the disks can fairly easily be re-created from the net? I'm thinking that the OS and all the mechanism for doing the mirroring etc. would be on one disk that's *not* part of the logical volume but all the distros *would* be on the LV. I know almost nothing about the LVM so please tell me if this is not a good application of it. -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list