On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:50:39PM -0500, Bill Layer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:59:31 -0500 > Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > > > SCSI? Sorry, but that's just not cost-effective, even when sifting > > through the junk pile. And, instead of a monstrous tower case, why not > > try a Mini-ITX box? More than enough storage and computing power could > > be put into a system smaller and lighter than most of the books I lugged > > around throughout college (well, probably not quite, but damn close). > > Why not just take this idea one step further, and instead of > contructing a box to maintain, why not just have some willing member > maintain the distro server on a USB 2.0 or firewire external IDE > drive? 120GB of storage is probably sufficient for our needs; that > would allow for numerous different distros, and most of them would not > be nearly that large. (Ipcop, Damn Small etc) That's an interesting idea. This approach could also make it easy to clone the disk and set up multiple distro servers, if needed. -- Joel Schneider joel at joelschneider.net Linux makes computing fun again. _______________________________________________ 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