Install fest registration...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:23:46PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I got the following e-mail, any suggestions as to how
> I should reply to this person? I have checked, and the
> IBM M Pro Server was (depending on model) a Pentium II
> 350 or 400 MHz box, so should be if anything overkill
> for the sort of stuff this person suggests...

As far as I recall on the M Pro 6889 models, they are single cpu, 400 or
so MHz P2 on an intel 440BX chipset, can be upgraded to dual cpu (at
least some models) often have onboard adaptec 2940 dual channel scsi,
and some models run scsi disks, others ide.  The cdrom is ide.  NIC is
intel e100.  Ram must be ECC/parity on the models I worked with in the
past PC100 or better SDRAM but that only matters if trying to upgrade
it.

I have never seen one refered to as 10U, but well people call towers
funny things sometimes and I suppose there were server rather than
workstation models in different cases.

The ones I worked with had Matrox MGA200 or 400 video cards in them, but
I suspect that was just an ordering option on the workstations.

Any linux distribution should install without a glitch at all as far as
I can tell, since I never had a problem with linux on them 4 or 5 years
ago.

Lennart Sorensen

> > I am planning to bring an IBM M Pro server (6889
> > 10U) with one processor.  I
> > would like to put in a secont network card and run
> > it as my broadband router
> > and internal file server.  I might like to also run
> > a server using dynamic
> > nameserver hostin (is that what it's called?)
> > 
> > This isn't to confirm it (yet) as I may have a
> > schedule conflict, however,
> > besides detailed listings of my hardware from
> > Windows hardware manager, what
> > else can I do to facilitate this install?
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