For the past few weeks I’ve been getting another machine ready to replace the current file server. I’ve been setting SuSE 10.1 on a PIII 933 machine to replace the Athlon 2400+. Continue reading
Migrating the server
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Canon DRebel XT (350D) + other exciting camera stuff
Well I’ve been a little on the fence for the past few weeks regarding selling my Digital Rebel (300D) and picking up a 350D before going away to Morocco. Well, after tallying up what I would get for my Drebel, and the other lenses I had laying around (28mm f2.8, 35-105mm f4.5-5.6 and 35-70mm f3.5-4.5) I decided that if I played my cards right, I could sell them all and break even on a purchase of a new DRebel XT. Continue reading
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Setting up the WRT45GS for bittorrents
Read this to get the WRT45GS router stop slowing down from bittorrent access.
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Mounting ISOs
I’ve done this a few times, and each time I need to look it up. At least if I post it here, I know where to look for it.
To mount an ISO file to a folder;
#mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso
RAID 5 success.
The results are good.
Managed to get all 4 drives mounted under a RAID 5 array, like I described earlier. Once I was done swapping out the smaller partitions for the larger drives, I was left with one large partition of 699 Gigs. At least according to Yast, as well as Webmin.
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Linux games
Something to look at when I have some time:
Linux game roundup
More on HDs and RAID.
So I have checked this Maxtor drive using all the Maxtor utilities, and the drive seems to pass every one of their tests… I still don’t trust it, mainly since the S.M.A.R.T. feature reports 3925 write errors… And the loss of data I experienced not too long ago…
Anyhoo, I however decided to use it in my RAID 5 array. If the drive does go bad, it will be an easy matter of going to the local computer store, and picking up another 250 gig drive to replace it. With that in mind, I splurged yesterday on 2 removable HD bays (at $14.99 each).
Working!
Finally, everything is workning!
RAID array is working well, serving data through NFS and Samba, music server is putting out tunes through all the speakers, and the torrents are flowing… There’s more I want to do, but I’m happy for now.
I can rest, and get on with other things. I must admit, I’ve been a little obsessed about getting this linux server up and running. Make a backup this morning, and scheduled the system to make system backups every morning. Just in case.
Struggling with sound
This has happened every time I install SuSE… I get everything working, and the sound is still flaky. Every time.
Now it’s on the server. To get SoftSqueeze working, I need to have access to the sound card, which currently I do not. The root user seems to have control, since I can send a ‘play’ command as root, and tunes comes out, however as a regulas user. Nada.
I had already copied the asound.conf file (mentioned in an earlier post) to the /etc folder.
And I get some error message. Gonna persue the permissions…
Got it. Looked at the permissions for /dev/dsp and it belonged to user root and group audio.
Made the user (myself) part of the audio group, rebooted, and all is well.