I am considering putting together a 'micro server' that I can easily travel with. I am seriously considering the decTOP, as at $99 (plus the cost of a 256MB SIMM) is amazingly priced. But I want to run on batteries, so trash a real hard drive. I have a couple of IDE to Compact flash adapters that support 2 flash cards. So I was considering a 4Gb (or even 2Gb) cheap real fash card for the OS and a 4 or 8 Gb micro drive (I have a 4Gb sitting in a drawer gathering dust got to figure out how to fix its paritions that I messed up). So I was thinking to put the more static parts of the OS on the flash card and the not static parts on the micro drive. Obviously the Swap partition, /home, and /var/log go onto the micro drive. What else? /tmp? Are /dev and /proc real things on disk or only pointers to the various devices? And then how do I put all these directory trees on the micro drive. I currently use a LVM partition for my /home on my notebook, but this is a lot more. Do I do Symbolic links? Or what. Are there any howtos? I have not found anything to help me so far. Probably got at least a week to figure this out. Obviously I don't have the system right now. And monday it is off to San Fran for the IEEE 802 meeting... (and the following week IETF in Chicago, family gets really upset when I have these 'back-to-back' conferences).
Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I am considering putting together a 'micro server' that I can easily > travel with. I am seriously considering the decTOP, as at $99 (plus the > cost of a 256MB SIMM) is amazingly priced. > > But I want to run on batteries, so trash a real hard drive. I have a > couple of IDE to Compact flash adapters that support 2 flash cards. So > I was considering a 4Gb (or even 2Gb) cheap real fash card for the OS > and a 4 or 8 Gb micro drive (I have a 4Gb sitting in a drawer gathering > dust got to figure out how to fix its paritions that I messed up). > > So I was thinking to put the more static parts of the OS on the flash > card and the not static parts on the micro drive. > > Obviously the Swap partition, /home, and /var/log go onto the micro > drive. What else? /tmp? > > Are /dev and /proc real things on disk or only pointers to the various > devices? > > And then how do I put all these directory trees on the micro drive. I > currently use a LVM partition for my /home on my notebook, but this is a > lot more. Do I do Symbolic links? Or what. Are there any howtos? I > have not found anything to help me so far. > > Probably got at least a week to figure this out. Obviously I don't have > the system right now. And monday it is off to San Fran for the IEEE 802 > meeting... (and the following week IETF in Chicago, family gets really > upset when I have these 'back-to-back' conferences).The major issue with that box is processor power and usb speed (it is not USB 2). I do not have an alternative that can be used in that way, and so it may be OK so long as you know what you are getting. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070715/8df036a5/attachment.sig>
Johnny Hughes wrote:> Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I am considering putting together a 'micro server' that I can easily >> travel with. I am seriously considering the decTOP, as at $99 (plus the >> cost of a 256MB SIMM) is amazingly priced. >> >> But I want to run on batteries, so trash a real hard drive. I have a >> couple of IDE to Compact flash adapters that support 2 flash cards. So >> I was considering a 4Gb (or even 2Gb) cheap real fash card for the OS >> and a 4 or 8 Gb micro drive (I have a 4Gb sitting in a drawer gathering >> dust got to figure out how to fix its paritions that I messed up). >> >> So I was thinking to put the more static parts of the OS on the flash >> card and the not static parts on the micro drive. >> >> Obviously the Swap partition, /home, and /var/log go onto the micro >> drive. What else? /tmp? >> >> Are /dev and /proc real things on disk or only pointers to the various >> devices? >> >> And then how do I put all these directory trees on the micro drive. I >> currently use a LVM partition for my /home on my notebook, but this is a >> lot more. Do I do Symbolic links? Or what. Are there any howtos? I >> have not found anything to help me so far. >> >> Probably got at least a week to figure this out. Obviously I don't have >> the system right now. And monday it is off to San Fran for the IEEE 802 >> meeting... (and the following week IETF in Chicago, family gets really >> upset when I have these 'back-to-back' conferences). >> > > The major issue with that box is processor power and usb speed (it is > not USB 2). I do not have an alternative that can be used in that way, > and so it may be OK so long as you know what you are getting.The 'hard' drive is on a IDE to Compact flash interface. These things are almost all wiring. I do not believe they are an IDE to USB converter. Afterall, the Compact flash is a drive, so it is a matter of wiring and power. (there is only a couple of capcitors on the PCB and a place to plug in a drive power connector. So the bottle neck is the Geode GX500 (articles equate it to a 366Mhz Intel processer). But if I can find another nice micro system like the decTOP with a little more speed, at that price point, I would grab it....