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From: Robert Hoffman ">rob@frankenlinux.com>
To: ">ale@ale.org ">ale@ale.org>; Rod Young ">development@combiz.net>
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] samba backup server part 2
>Rod,
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>I'm a little unclear as to what you are after.
Due to system instabiltiy(98 system files disappearing) My main app(a MS database) has been moved another machine. Eventally I want to migrate the database. But I will fight that battle another day or year.
>What is it exactly that you want to do with wordperfect and where are your *.mdb files now?
We are a wordperfect office. So I can still use it on the cyrix if I converted it to linux. I am just trying to figure out what use we could use this machine for. Since it has a colorado T3000 ( i know SLOW) I thought we could use it or the large hard drive to back everyone else up. Everyone else has just 3gigs.
>Using the machine as a file server and backup server are two very different things. Which are you trying to do? (if either) I really like to maintain a separate backup server that has no other duties.
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>Linux doesn't have a problem with 13 BG drives; I'm running on a 30 GB drive right now. If you have some old machine, your bios may not recognize the 13 BG drive.
The wierd part is that the bios autodetects at 13gigs! 98 just won't format higher than eight. Originally when I added the 13gig I ghosted over a 3 gig backup. The new drive was formatted at 8 but went to 13 afterwards. Unfortunately that was a few crashes/reinstalls ago. I no longer have that image and I am back down to 8 gigs.
There are two ways around this: See if there's a bios update for your motherboard that recognizes 13 GB harddrives. If there isn't, make a boot disk during your Linux install and start up the computer using it each time (make a backup bootdisk with the command 'mkbootdisk' after you get it going... that way, you have a spare.) My workstation at my last job needed a bootdisk to get going because it was an old, crappy cyrix machine and I stuck a 10 GB drive in it.
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>You might try setting up a /boot partition of about 15 meg during install which may save you the hastles of boot disks. It may work and it may not. Either way, as a non-profit org who can't be choosy, using a boot disk on a machine that only has to be restarted after a power failure shouldn't be that painful.
There seems to be a consensus (all bad) about cyrix. Does linux preform well on it?
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