Server fettling
Dec. 12th, 2006 02:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liam_on_linuxRight. Some considerable poking later, I have:
- the server happily booting
- it's apt-getted into currency
- the screen in 132*60 mode (I've disabled Ubuntu's soft fonts - by marking the console-manipulating utility non-executable)
- I have replaced the duff HD in the array with the working one from Nolly's PC (he has a 40GB one in its place, so he's much better off)
- I have created a 4-disk RAID5 array
- formatted it as ext3
- fscked it to check that it seems healthy
- mounted it under /media/raid
- the remaining space on the 3 slightly larger drives partitioned as swap (roughly 40 + 80 + 80 meg. Plenty for a lightly-loaded 128MB RAM machine, I reckon).
Suggestions for:
- a cleaner way of disabling soft fonts
- making eth0 permanently DHCP
- making the RAID autostart, 'cos it currently must be done by hand
...?
- the server happily booting
- it's apt-getted into currency
- the screen in 132*60 mode (I've disabled Ubuntu's soft fonts - by marking the console-manipulating utility non-executable)
- I have replaced the duff HD in the array with the working one from Nolly's PC (he has a 40GB one in its place, so he's much better off)
- I have created a 4-disk RAID5 array
- formatted it as ext3
- fscked it to check that it seems healthy
- mounted it under /media/raid
- the remaining space on the 3 slightly larger drives partitioned as swap (roughly 40 + 80 + 80 meg. Plenty for a lightly-loaded 128MB RAM machine, I reckon).
Suggestions for:
- a cleaner way of disabling soft fonts
- making eth0 permanently DHCP
- making the RAID autostart, 'cos it currently must be done by hand
...?
