Day 1
-17:30- Alrighty, I'm about to take the computer apart...
-17:32- YES! This case takes a full size board! Crap! The CPU fan might not fit under the PSU!
-17:36- CRAP! The PSU covers the CPU fan. I can't have that. I guess I have to try the other board.
-17:45- Cool, this one fits pretty well. Too bad I don't know wether or not this board works...
***I got distracted for an hour talking to people and checking ZDF ***
-18:45- Now then, what other stuff do I need to put in here? Hmm. Looks like all I need is already on the board.
-18:55- Now to plug it in a start it up.
-18:58- It would help if I plugged in the power switch...
-19:00- Uh oh, I press the button and it posts and dies. Now the PSU smells like fish. Great... This was a special power supply too!
-19:07- I took the PSU apart, nothing looks fishy. Hmm.
-19:12- I hooked up my air compressor and blew the 78 days of dust out of it.
-19:18- Upon further inspection of the motherboard, I discovered it was one of those faulty cap boards so I chucked it. Looks like it wasn't the PSU after all... Since I had to switch motherboards, I had to switch cases.
-19:20- I went into the garage to look for another case.
-19:45- I emerged from the garage with a black mid-tower. I got from Comp-Useless a few years ago.
-20:10- When I finished putting in the new motherboard, I hooked it up and powered it on.
-20:12- Hmm, it looks like 95 watts isin't enough to power this computer anymore... Looks like I need another PSU anyway...
-20:15- I went into the garage to look for another PSU.
-20:25- I came back with a 400-watt generic PSU that was in my last-last-last-other computer. This one worked well, ran cool and didn't make a lot of noise, but one of the molex connectors was bad. Nothing a little soldering couldn't fix!
-20:35- 10-minutes and 4 burns later I had the connector soldered back together. I'll play it safe and not use that one though. I taped it up just to make sure.
-20:50- Alright, everything is in the computer and ready for another test, but first, food time. Make sure you eat something messy right over the computer to give it that delicous aroma when it runs. Yeah.
-21:30- Server is hooked up and ready to go.
-21:31- It appears the BIOS doesn't like the cable I attached to the drives. I replaced them from my huge box of IDE cables.
-21:33- I turned on the computer and got:
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This is weasel.(none) (Linux i686 2.6.17-gentoo-r4)
weasel login:
-21:45- I went and got the Gentoo install ISO and put it on a CD. I'll do the install tomorrow.
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cat ~/Desktop/gentoo-x86-minimal.iso > /dev/cdrw
*** Wow, I've been really busy with everything from writing programs to getting a new job. I've finally sat down a bit to work on this server. ***
OMG DAY 2!
-17:00- Alrighty, I'm wiping the dust off this machine.
-17:15- CD in, booting up.
-17:25- Alrighty, I ran this stuff to get it ready for install:
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# passwd
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.254.251
# /etc/inti.d/sshd start
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?style=printable&full=1
-17:45- I've decided on a partitioning scheme.
While the default Gentoo set-up mentioned in the handbook is okay, I'm going to do this one a bit different.
- hda1: 2.5GB OS
- hda2: 512MB swap
- hda3: *GB data
*** Iyaa! I got real distracted with other stuff and ended up needing to shut down the server. I'll get back to it tomorrow afternoon. I didn't even work on it for a full hour! ***
DAY 2! (continued)
*** Come on, there is no way 45 minutes counts as a whole day. ***
-17:25- Alrighty, time to open up fdisk:
Mistake #1!: I typed "fdisk /dev/hda1" and created a partition table on a partition, I should have typed:
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fdisk /dev/hda
-17:35- Okay, now it's time to create partitions. I'll use n and make the partitions according to my table.:
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Command (m for help): n
Command action: p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-2434, default 1): 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-2434, default 2434): +2560M
Command (m for help): n
Command action: p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (313-2434, default 313): 313
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (313-2434, default 2434): +512M
Command (m for help): n
Command action: p
Partition number (1-4): 3
First cylinder (376-2434, default 376): 376
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (376-2434, default 2434): 2434
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 312 2506108+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 313 375 506047+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 376 2434 16538917+ 83 Linux
-18:15- Now, we write the partition tables. This will blow up your drive, but you knew that already. NOTE: If this hoses anything important, creates a hole in the universe or makes you any other way unhappy, don't say I didn't warn you. Anyway, press w and hope you are SSHd into the right computer.
-18:25- Now we're done with fdisk. Time to format. The documentation says we should use ext2 for the boot filesystem, but since the boot and root partitions are the same, I'm going to try ext3.
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# mke2fs -j /dev/hda1