nokheat Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 (edited) I am planning to install Mandriva and use it as a server. It is a AMD 3000 dual core with 1 gb of DDR memory. It will run all the LAMP packages, various programming environment and runs samba and webdav so it will be a all purpose server for all the family programming and file storage need. I believe it would not be high loading, so i will keep the windows managers (KDE) I plan to buy a 8 GB drive to run the Mandriva 2008.1 Spring, would it be a good idea? i am also worried on the serive life of my CF module. any more measures i can take for this deployment? will moving swap to a real hardisk helps too ? how this idea sounds? do i need to take extra care in choosing the software package? Edited June 14, 2008 by nokheat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 I would suggest against installing to a CF card for a server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 youknow I'm going to perform a similar experiment, but I've had a lot of folks "go before me" in my situation. I'm going to install a small c in my car, a REALLY big MP3 player is what it will end up being, but with such "long (relatively speaking) boot times from a HD" hard drives arent real practical. most folks who boot car pc's use a CF as their OS drive and then a HUGE HD as their data drive. Mine should be done end of August. The one thing you want to do, is make sure you get a QUALITY CF card. A generic might not be your best bet. J PS if that works I may actually use one as the boot drive on a desktop. can you IMAGINE the boot speed on quad core pc with 4GB of ram!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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