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eauxnguyenhi all. Any recommendations for hardware for a small office server with raid 0 or better yet raid 5? Considering hp factory refurb..04:03
mralphabetsomething you can get local hardware support for /shrug04:16
mralphabetfind out what the vendors near you are warranty qualified for04:16
mralphabetor if you are doing the hardware support yourself then buy whatever you are comfortable with.04:17
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eauxnguyenmralphabet: Thanks04:23
eauxnguyenit looks like I can get reasonably priced hp looking at the known good list at ubuntu for the promise raid controller..04:24
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tr0n102Is there a way to raid 1 the MBR across 5 drives using mdadm or raidtools (not not grub-install etc)?04:36
tr0n102Put another way: IS there a way to raid1 the first 512k of your hdd's in linux through mdadm/raidtools???04:36
mralphabetraid 1 is *2 drives*04:39
mralphabet3 drives is not raid 104:40
mralphabet>3 drives is not raid 104:40
lcddwhy not?04:40
mralphabetthat's wrong actually04:41
mralphabet>2 drives is not raid 104:41
mralphabetthere, fixed it04:41
mralphabetlcdd: because raid 1 is a mirror, ie 1 to 1 copy to a second drive, a third drive doesn't fit into that equation04:42
tr0n102*sigh please google that statement mralphabet. http://www.peg.com/techpapers/monographs/raid/raid.html04:44
tr0n102anyways, for simplicities sake, lets just say I have 2 drives04:45
tr0n102how could I do this?04:45
mralphabetuse mdadm04:47
mralphabetOne can configure RAID 1 to have more than one duplicate (e.g. "triple mirroring") copy of each disk.04:48
mralphabetmy bad04:48
mralphabetwin 1504:49
tr0n102Everytime a drive dies, I should not have to install grub into the MBR. The MBR is part of the Hard disk, therefore the Raid software should handle it!04:50
lcddyou can combine whole disks instead of partitions04:54
tr0n102How can I do that with software raid lcdd!?04:54
lcddbut i don't know for sure whether that will affect booting04:54
tr0n102do you have a link?04:54
lcddwell, the same way as with partitions, i think04:54
tr0n102a hyperlink to this esoteric and forbidden knowledge?04:55
lcddhttp://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html04:55
lcddi hope it is current04:56
tr0n102any particular section you were referencing?04:56
mralphabetit is not current04:56
tr0n102hmmm but that brings up a good point. instead of using a partition as a device, use the whole disk as a device04:57
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tr0n102fascinating, but can it work?04:57
tr0n102"/spock04:58
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lcddi've never tested it05:00
tr0n102well, it doesn't work in my situation anyway05:01
tr0n102Thanks for your help tho, I'll probably just use sfdisk to do it all05:01
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tr0n102Weird al Whit3 and n3rdy - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-355446715071271348&q=white+and+nerdy&total=6362&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=006:26
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nealmcbtr0n102: yeah - a great video - I have it on my nokia 770 internet tablet07:27
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ghatakHi, i currently have a server with TFTP, DHCP setup for pxe boot. is it possible for me to redirect all the output to console? I am able to do it once the installation is done by changing grub09:46
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stiVhi everyone ... i have a question: i am trying to install multiple machines unattended, which is working pretty good, i have my own mirror and costumized packages (eg. apache2 package w. ssl generation and change config files built in) but i just can't figure out how to tell the "postfix" package to stop asking for configuration. (i changed the package to hold all the configs i need). anyone an idea or a link where i could f05:17
stiVthe installation is working very well, and i have a working unattended netboot environment, but because i changed some components on my mirror i can't get the installer to use the packages i want before the first boot, so i made a one-time bootscript (which works as well) where i do an aptitude update and install all the packages i want via aptitude install XY. thing is, postfix asks questions and i wandted to know if i just05:17
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jdstrandstiV: man 7 debconf05:28
jdstrandstiV: particularly Unattended Package Installation05:29
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stiVthat was what i was searching for ... ty :-)05:47
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kronus_Hi, is there any way to force dhclient to ask for a specific IP?  Our router doesn't seem to support this functionality, and a normal DHCP acquire gives me a different IP than before08:53
kronus_and the whole office doesn't want to change their bookmarks :|08:54
kronus_oh, and setting the IP with ifconfig makes the server unable to communicate with the outside world08:55
mralphabethttp://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_configure_network_connections09:03
mralphabethrm, that's if you are in gnome09:07
mralphabetkronus_: what are you running?09:07
kronus_server distro, no GUI09:10
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mralphabet!server gude09:28
ubotuSorry, I don't know anything about server gude - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi09:28
mralphabet!server guide09:28
ubotuSorry, I don't know anything about server guide - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi09:28
mralphabethrm09:28
mralphabet!network09:37
ubotuWireless documentation can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs09:37
jdstrandkronus_: why not use another computer as your dhcp server, and disable that on the router?  Then you can setup MAC addresses with IP addresses.09:41
jdstrandkronus_: as for ifconfig not working-- did you remember to setup a default route?09:41
kronus_jdstrand: what is a default route?09:46
jdstrandkronus_: it tells the computer where to send packets that it doesn't know how to route.  Typical usage would be:09:47
jdstrandroute add default gw <ip of your router>09:47
kronus_ah09:47
kronus_i will try that09:47
kronus_I think it worked, thanks :D09:49
jdstrandkronus_: you should see:09:49
jdstrandman route09:49
jdstrandman interfaces09:49
kronus_will do09:49
jdstrandThe second lets you configure these things in the debian/ubuntu way09:49
jdstrandthey will come up on boot automatically then09:49
kronus_so a dhcp ack would set up both the NIC and the routing, then?09:50
jdstrandtypically yes09:50
jdstrandyou are doing it manually, so you need to do both09:50
kronus_ah, route gw sets the gateway09:51
kronus_it makes more sense now09:51
kronus_I would go to #ubuntu to troubleshoot wifi, right?09:52
jdstrandyes09:53
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