[BC] Linux based Server

[Joseph DiPietro]

I run FreeNAS on an old 730MHz PIII.  A SATA Raid card supports a 
pair of 500GB drives as my main file server plus a single 750GB drive 
for backups.  Like you, my OS runs off of a CD.  With Samba running, 
the folks in the office can't tell the difference between it and the 
old Win2K server.

Fast, simple and cheap.  What more can you ask for.

Joe DiPietro

Craig Healy wrote:
 > I put together a server recently.  While it's really just a test, it's
 > worked well.  This was based on a surplus rack-mount computer that had an
 > obsolete operating system and used-up drives.   I added a CD drive and newer
 > hard drive, network and video cards.  For an operating system I used
 > Linux-based Knoppix.  This is all stored on a CD.  Boots from the CD so
 > viruses and malware can't affect it.  To boot, a command line is manually
 > entered like "knoppix myconfig=/dev/hdd1"  This pulls the previously saved
 > configuration off the drive and resets it.  Eventually I will burn the
 > config files to a CD and add a second CD drive.  Works fine with only 256mb
 > of RAM.