[GRLUG] Anyone want an OLD Dell 1750 server

[Dave Chiodo]

Why not just boot from a livecd and do ..

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sd(x)





On Jan 12, 2012, at 8:19, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:03:11AM +0000, scott.tanner at comcast.net wrote:
>> John-Thomas, megadave - I have no problem holding a few servers for a
>> few weeks. Like I said, they're just sitting on the floor ( next to
>> some 10/100 hubs that came with the building ). I'll probably bring
>> them to the next GRLUG to be wiped; how do you feel about Nextena OS?
>> ;)
>
> Never heard of it.  <googlegooglegoogle>  Sounds interesting!
>
>> Casey - How are you on physical network ports / DHCP addresses? Do
>> have room for 10 more, or should I bring a spare switch? Or should we
>> split the servers into 2 GRLUG meetings?
>>
>> I'm guessing everyone will want the matching rack-mounting rails and
>> Y-Power cable, so I'll bring those along as well ( FYI - these have
>> dual power supplies, and they're pretty loud ).
>
> Perfect for the basement.  :-)
>
>> I'll try to arrive at the next GRLUG meeting a little early, so we can
>> get the servers unloaded and setup. All of the servers have Dell's RAC
>> management cards which includes a JAVA based KVM, so we could use that
>> in liue of keyboards/monitors to keep the external requirements down.
>>
>>
>> I'm really glad these systems can be of some use, especially if they
>> can help the Linux community.
>
> Thanks, Scott.
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