hans,
the following are recommendations based on last nights conversation (Tuesday).
server mirror box:
128, 256 or 512 MB ram
floppy drive
cdrom
100+ GB drive (you may need this to be larger depending on the number of images you plan to hold and/or mount)
100 BaseT ethernet card (or more than one if internet becomes a neccessity for loading updates from the web <unlikely>).
basic network capable installation (proftpd, etc)
some small (under 180 MB) cdrom disks with image info on them (various installation flavors)
this can be a small form factor type box (it doesn't need much more than this save a video card)
Demonstration box:
17 inch monitor (or lcd same size)
floppy drive
cdrom drive or dvd drive
512 MB (or more) ram
good video subsystem (Nvidia G-Force or other good quality equivalent)
100BaseT ethernet device (optional)
small HD (6 GB or greater)
some other multimedia (such as can be played with the multimedia apps included
in the Knoppix style live cd's)
* anything else you can think of
Interconnection capabilities:
6, 12, or 24 port 100 BaseT switches (may require multiple units for multiple stations)
lots of cat5e/cat6 cable
power strips
extension cords..
anything else I may be missing.....
I have some available small HD's over here (sub 2 GB category) and I have a 12 port 10BaseT switch with ATM interface I can provide.
think of anything else, let me know.
Mage (hawke)
On Thursday 29 January 2004 02:38 am, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
>
> ran the battery down too far during the presentation last night ( BTW, we
> have 3 new volunteers to help with west side activities! Look for and help
> build a stronger community on the west side ), so the laptop had to be
> booted today.
>
> That finally got me around to looking into getting pcmcia working. I had
> removed pcmcia support at installtime. Yeah, a foolish thing to do on a
> laptop. I only need pcmcia for wireless and have thus far used Knoppix
> anytime I needed to use wireless. Well, finally looked into it today. Took
> about 5 minutes to figure out which modules to load.
>
> Feeling that that wasn't good enough, I went on to install the pre-packaged
> 2.6 kernel from debian. X wouldn't start after that. Interesting, I
> thought. Turns out I now need the psmouse kernel module. Cool got that
> fixed.
>
> Sound wasn't working. Found the modules for that.
>
> Then when I was leaving the music kept playing after I shut the laptop.
> Ooops, apm isn't working. The apm module actually refuses to load as it
> thinks I'm missing something. I'll look into it some other time.
>
> I added sysfs, but /sys/power/state didn't allow me to change state.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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