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Re: [cobalt-users] OT actinic - was Qube3 max disk size - loading RAQ4r ISO - RAM size as backup box?

Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:


I've got a qube 3 pro (dual nic) which I'm planning on turning into a backup box for some raqs - ie, to put TWO drives into it, and hopefully use them as a RAID 1 configuration and dump all the data from about 4 raq onto it nightly...  I already have it running a 500Mhz cpu, so I'm thinking that it's going to be fine for this purpose...

4 questions:

1. what is the largest capacity drives it will handle?



Qube3 is limited to 128GB anything larger will be recognized, but will
fail to boot/fail in use. Go for 120GB drives.



But the Qube 3 also has a SCSI port (which I've never used), so I image you could connect a larger disk externally.



Yes, I've noticed that - but no-one seems to have much experience of Qubes with SCSI - I don't have a ton of time on my hands to be "play" - I just want a solution that's going to "work".  My biggest issue is that the Qube is deployed in a data-center ... not here.  I'm open to experimentation with machine I have my hands on - something that's an hour away is a real pain to "play" with.

If someone has a link to an old thread with SCSI information, I'd take a gander, but otherwise I'm thinking about just using the qube as this test-bed.  I have two Qubes - one is Pro (with dual NICs and SCSI) - the other isn't - I don't think it has the SCSI.

Are all RAQ ISOs going to include support for the SCSI devices?


And on a seperate note, I've just set up a backup server and found an linux OS called "Trustix" www.trustix.org worked perfectly on an old Pentium 200 with 32Mb Ram and 120Gb Disk. The Trustix install lets you choose only the things you want (thus its very small and I installed it directly from the internet in about 4 hours with just and ISDN line!). Trustix seemed a better choice for my needs than a RedHat install.



I have a number of old PCs hanging around - I just bought 3 from a dentist's office which might take this OS - I'll download the ISO and have an experiment in my notorious SPARE TIME.... (yeah... one day...)
As long as you are happy working through an SSH command line, trustix is great (the creators are also hyper security consious, so its secure by default and you have to turn on services you want, eg FTP, Apache - so no security holes on things you aren't using). They've a helpful email group too (not as busy as here though). Having said that its much easier to just 'use' the GUI of a qube so pros and cons really.
I think I remember somewhere that to connect to a device on scsi (with the Qube now) you need to use telnet/ssh and 'mount' the drive. Sounded simple, but knowing my luck I'd make a hash of it and end up reinstalling everything from scratch several times. 


Hope this helps,
Steve



Is this the old Actinic user group gone server?


:) With you, Phil and me here it seems that way :)
By the way, I came accross some people who were just right to start their online business with an Actinic style programe, Blackbird....... Did they ever call you? I gave them your URL, If they didn't and you're interested I'll give you their details and 'history' if you like..