Retired Techie
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
In this category I will be providing guidance on putting together different types of computer systems based on my personal experience. Desktops and servers covered here will most likely be Linux/Unix based, as I don’t really do MAC, and the only Windows computer I use is for gaming. Note: I plan to move to a Linux based computer for gaming soon, so stay tuned.
This post is number 16 in this series, and it points towards the third video I have done on this subject.
We will be installing cockpit on our server, to give us a nice remote GUI for management. Additionally we will be adding some cockpit application for for things like RAID and SMB support.
So please watch the entire video, and enjoy.
For this segment, we will install an Operating System (Debian 12, Bookworm) on our server built from spare parts.
We will step away from the virtual machines, and see how things go with real, if somewhat dated hardware. Additionally we will walk though some hardware identification, and the installation of additional helper programs. One of the first being openssh, so we can operate our server headless.
For this next segment, using actual hardware, I went ahead and created a video. The main purpose is to highlight my methodology when I start working with real hardware.
Up to this point, this project has been done on virtual machines. which is quite a thing, as I remember back when this was not even possible for the home user. But alas, virtualization, in spite of how far it has come, is not like real hardware. It is pretty close on Type One Hypervisors, but Type two is not a perfect experience.
So watch the video, and get some insight into how we can make a server out of junk box parts.
Our last stop before moving on to actual physical hardware is the Logical Volume Manager or LVM. Anyone who has used Linux on a regular basis has probably heard of this application. (more…)
In this post we will take a look at the snapraid application. This program provides fault tolerance through a form of stand alone parity. (more…)