Installing linux on an awesome box like a 940 is pretty insane dude. As a server, you might find it underpowered. It's got 6g of memory, and 1.6 P4 Zeon processor (two I think). While you can get a modern Dell 1950 with a dual core Intel proc and 8g of ram for around 6k. Maybe you got a smokin' deal on the 940? Maybe you have no support, or any licenses on this box? I'm not sure you are going to get what you want out of this. A 940 is an awesome OnTap platform, for NFS block storage. As a platform for Linux or BSD, it might not be the best of choices.
Good luck,
-Blake
On 4/9/07, linux4ever@hushmail.com linux4ever@hushmail.com wrote:
they say 940. we really need to know how to get open source linux on them to make them useable and expandable for our needs. running anything that is closed source is a completely reprehensible situation and not something a moral netizen would wish to do.
we tried redhat and debian but so far have not been able to netboot or load linux yet. any help to get a valid open source solution with linux would be great.
yours in tux
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:21:48 -0700 Blake Golliher thelastman@gmail.com wrote:
What kind of filers are these? Some old 540's or 760's? What's the model type?
On 4/9/07, linux4ever@hushmail.com linux4ever@hushmail.com wrote:
Hello,
we received a couple netapp filers and have some questions about upgrading them.
- what version of linux will run on these filers (preferably
gentoo) and what is the upgrade procedure?
- setting up volumes does not allow me to format them with EXT3
or
ReiserFS currently so i will need to know how that is done for increased filesystem performance and reliability
- what brand/type of off the shelf disks will work with these
systems?
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