A bit OT, but I'm running CentOS-5.6 on this machine (in fact on two of them) and it seems to run perfectly - I've had no problems at all. Except that I'd like to add a second ethernet port, and am not sure where one can find a card that will fit this machine. As far as I can see, it requires a half-height PCIe card, which seems to be rather a rare animal. (There doesn't seem to be a standard for the backplate.) So I'm wondering if anyone has tried this? Incidentally, is there a forum anywhere for users of the MicroServer under Linux? (The machine is unbelievably cheap at the moment, due to a bizarre cashback offer from HP.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On 05/08/11 6:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> A bit OT, but I'm running CentOS-5.6 on this machine > (in fact on two of them) > and it seems to run perfectly - > I've had no problems at all. > > Except that I'd like to add a second ethernet port, > and am not sure where one can find a card that will fit this machine. > As far as I can see, it requires a half-height PCIe card, > which seems to be rather a rare animal. > (There doesn't seem to be a standard for the backplate.)"low profile" is the buzzword, and there's lots of them. for example... http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt/pro1000pt-overview.htm or a dual port equivalent http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt-dualport/pro1000pt-dualport-overview.htm
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:> A bit OT, but I'm running CentOS-5.6 on this machine > (in fact on two of them) > and it seems to run perfectly - > I've had no problems at all. > > Except that I'd like to add a second ethernet port, > and am not sure where one can find a card that will fit this machine. > As far as I can see, it requires a half-height PCIe card, > which seems to be rather a rare animal. > (There doesn't seem to be a standard for the backplate.A number of cards come with a changeable plate to make them half height. Below are links to Intel desktop and server cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106011 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106035 Ryan
On 05/08/11 6:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> (The machine is unbelievably cheap at the moment, > due to a bizarre cashback offer from HP.)where's this deal?
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 14:53, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:> Except that I'd like to add a second ethernet port, > and am not sure where one can find a card that will fit this machine. > As far as I can see, it requires a half-height PCIe card, > which seems to be rather a rare animal. > (There doesn't seem to be a standard for the backplate.) > > So I'm wondering if anyone has tried this? > Incidentally, is there a forum anywhere > for users of the MicroServer under Linux? >I ordered one directly from HP. Was ~?40. -- Kind Regards, Christopher J. Buckley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110508/deb54010/attachment-0005.html>