SCORE!!! Now, how the heck does ZM work on this rig?

tamathumper · Post by **tamathumper** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:25 am

Folks, I scored a major rig today for $100. HP NetServer 6000r U3, dual Pentium III Xeon's, 1GB RAM, RAID Array, 3 power supplies, redundant fans, yadda yadda.

The LiveCD barfs with a Kernel Panic, I'm assuming because of the dual processors...?

I downloaded the three Mandrake Linux CD images today for 2005LE, do you think that will run on this box, and then maybe I could load up xammp to get a quick MySQL/Apache/PHP setup, then ZoneMinder, etc. etc.? I dunno if Mandrake downloadable is any good or not

I'm still building the dual Pentium II/450 desktop with 1GB too, so I'll need a Linux to run on that as well and would really love for it to be the same thing and to serve "stuff" to my home network...

Sorry for being such a noob

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:28 am

you might be better of with Cordels CTU ZM distro that runs on Fedora Core 3 Not sure bout the dual Proc's though but would assume it would handle it. Corey would know better

James

tamathumper · Post by **tamathumper** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:30 am

OK, thanks JW!

What is a CTU ZM distro?

Fedora is the public version of RedHat, right?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:33 am

public version ish. Red hat enterprise server no.

fedora was launched as far as i can gather to test stuff for their commercial releases. Centos is a public RHEL ish server and runs great. But then so does FC3.

I think theres a link in the announcement part of the forum for cordels distro via torrent. As its such a huge file its the cheapest way to host it.

James

tamathumper · Post by **tamathumper** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:56 am

What does CTU and RHEL mean?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:59 am

CTU is cordels company
and RHEL is red hat enterprise linux

tamathumper · Post by **tamathumper** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:40 am

Aha, gotcha. I did a bunch of reading on Suse, Mandriva, and Fedora, and I think I am going to stick with Mandriva.

I need to search the forums to see if people are having any trouble with Mandriva 2005 LE...

If I understand correctly, a lot of times you have to have a very specific (and sometimes outdated) version of lots of "dependent" packages to make everything work, is that right?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:52 am

your asking th wrong guy lol. i dont think so though i built my last project on pclinuxos and i think i was out on 3 dependancies. I think ross has made some rpm's for mandriva 2006 but im not experienced at building from source. thats why i made the effort to make my own live cd with Ross's help cos im too lazy.

Good Luck

tamathumper · Post by **tamathumper** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:57 pm

Thanks for your replies.

I've been reading a lot in the past few weeks about the different Linux distros, and here's what I've learned...

- I am a long-time Windows guru, and it sucks feeling like an idiot

- Linux suffers from being Open Source as much as it benefits. Windows is Windows, but "Linux" could be any of thousands of different versions and spin-offs and customized builds and who knows what!?! The first question should be "Um, which Linux do you mean?"
- All of the names in Windows are fairly meaningful - especially for applications and subsystems. Names in Linux are purposely arcane, and there are thousands of acronyms, for apparently no reason...
- If you have a problem to solve, Windows will work but it will cost you a little money. Linux *may* work, but it will cost you tremendous amounts of time, especially if you don't know what you're doing.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:21 pm

lol. i think that windows as a platform can do virtually anything, how stably and at what cost is completly differnt. i like linux because of the community and have had much better stability (even without knowing how to set it up properly) from linux than any windows box (but 2003 and nt4 nearly made it). Your right with linux your only limiting factor is you. Either one's immagination or ability. Stick with it though cos its well worth it

James

Ruler · Post by **Ruler** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:52 pm

And once you learn linux and how to work in it, windoze is for the brain-dead.

Feeling like an idiot is good, because that means that you're learning.

Linux does have it's limitations, but for a server or business desktop, it's the only way to go. I've got 98SE on my home machine for the sole reason that I play games on it more than anything else; if I didn't play games, I wouldn't have any M$ software on it and it'd be slackware only. Linux definitely isn't for everybody, though it's improving.

Blazer · Post by **Blazer** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:38 pm

Ruler wrote:Linux does have it's limitations, but for a server or business desktop, it's the only way to go. I've got 98SE on my home machine for the sole reason that I play games on it more than anything else; if I didn't play games, I wouldn't have any M$ software on it and it'd be slackware only.

You should try Cedega (previously known as Wine or WineX). You can run a surprising amount of M$ apps on it, including high performance games (assuming you have a decent video card).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedega
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

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SCORE!!! Now, how the heck does ZM work on this rig?

SCORE!!! Now, how the heck does ZM work on this rig?

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