Installation
One 1Gb Viking CF card popped through the door this morning. I'm installing Debian on it at the moment. Wonder how many flash memory writes an install involves? It's never been something I've had to worry about before...
Well, hopefully once this is setup (which might take a while: it's not exactly the fastest of cards, given that I bought the cheapest one I could get) I should have a nice, quiet, low-power-consumption, battery-backed server =) And I think I may take a hammer to the incredibly noisy, whiny 4Gb HD in my current server ...
Hm. It's kinda weird to not be able to hear the hard drive going at all. The light flashes, but (for obvious reasons) there's none of the familiar ka-chunkabrrrrvrvrvr noises you normally get when installing something. I almost feel like I need to create some sort of aural status monitor, just so that I know that it's actually doing something.
[edit] Heh. Installation was sloooooooooooooow. I think I may have figured out why: the CF card doesn't seem to do DMA, and the laptop's processor certainly ain't the fastest around. I guess I'll just have to avoid any apps doing a lot of data transfer (which is probably a good idea anyway)
[edit, later] Copied everything off the old server - there wasn't much; I'd always regarded it as temporary - and turned it off. Holy shit, it's scarily quiet in here. No more fan noise and whining HD, and soon, no more big beige box taking up space under my desk.
Wonder if I'll be able to get to sleep without the drone?
[edit] Oh, also: the gray box is now synapse, to go with axon the router :3
Well, hopefully once this is setup (which might take a while: it's not exactly the fastest of cards, given that I bought the cheapest one I could get) I should have a nice, quiet, low-power-consumption, battery-backed server =) And I think I may take a hammer to the incredibly noisy, whiny 4Gb HD in my current server ...
Hm. It's kinda weird to not be able to hear the hard drive going at all. The light flashes, but (for obvious reasons) there's none of the familiar ka-chunkabrrrrvrvrvr noises you normally get when installing something. I almost feel like I need to create some sort of aural status monitor, just so that I know that it's actually doing something.
[edit] Heh. Installation was sloooooooooooooow. I think I may have figured out why: the CF card doesn't seem to do DMA, and the laptop's processor certainly ain't the fastest around. I guess I'll just have to avoid any apps doing a lot of data transfer (which is probably a good idea anyway)
[edit, later] Copied everything off the old server - there wasn't much; I'd always regarded it as temporary - and turned it off. Holy shit, it's scarily quiet in here. No more fan noise and whining HD, and soon, no more big beige box taking up space under my desk.
Wonder if I'll be able to get to sleep without the drone?
[edit] Oh, also: the gray box is now synapse, to go with axon the router :3