[techtalk] New RH system

A. Morner angie at dsbcpas.com
Mon May 22 16:08:48 EST 2000


Hi Folks..

Brief intro:  Tech Coordinator of a small accounting firm in NH, some
experience in Linux, mostly user-end,  but still learning as I go along..

Background:  I've been asked to build a redhat box that will serve as our
email, web and ftp server (among various other little tasks)..  We already
have one server up and running RH 6.2 with a BP6 motherboard by Abit, only
trouble being that the ATA/66 drives we put in, had to settle for 33.  Tried
using Gentus, a highly plagarized version of Redhat put out by ABit, but
something wasn't stable and I'm not LinuxLiterate enough yet to figure out
what it was so we went back to RH.  I'm not certain with regards to the
other components where to go from here..

My question:  What would you folks recommend for an "ideal" server.  My boss
wants me to use a dual-processor motherboard and it looks like that will
have to be the BP6.

My goals:  I want it fast, I want it stable, I want it easy to setup.  I
want to put the system together and install with no glitches. My goal in
this is not to learn how to recompile a kernel (I'm sure many of you are
smirking saying "if you only knew how easy it was," but I've other things I
need to learn first. (That can come later ;)

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated..
TIA,
Angela






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