680x0's Journal: New Server for Steeds.com

Well, The Server That Lived was replaced anyway. Something about kernel panics, causing the loss of the /var/log directory (after getting it running again, I did find most of the files in /var/lost+found). I decided I wanted an upgrade to the OS (RedHat 7.1 was a particularly unstable version of Linux, and I think was the last to not offer ext3 filesystem). Trying to upgrade the OS was not very successful either, as I kept getting read errors from the CD-ROM device. Time for new hardware.

So, I go to one of those computer shows, and buy an old used IBM 300PL machine. Again, being from IBM, it's built like a tank. It needs more RAM, and disk space (well, I solved the disk space problem by moving the disk drive over from the old server).

But buying the basic machine for $85 I thought was quite a coup (for a P2-450 machine).