server question

[daviid]

i picked up a old Compaq Proliant 2500R. Does anyone know what the motherboard form factor is? its actually split into 2. one half houses the 2 Pentium processors, ram, network output, video. the other half houses 6 PCI/ISA slots, 2 serials ports, 1 parrallel, and the mouse & keyboard ports.

they are both connected via a bridge board.

im not really interested in using the old boards, but id like to see if i can throw something new and improved in here

[Honclfibr]

You just inherited someone else's trash.

[daviid]

You just inherited someone else's trash.

[Honclfibr]

On the bright side, you own guns. So disposal should be fun.

[bigred875]

haha..."here you throw this away"

[FlynGSXR1k]

You just inherited someone else's trash.

Agreed

[legalspeed]

You just inherited someone else's trash.

You ain't just a shittin'; 200mhz cpus, 325w ps., ISA only....

give it back.

I'll bring a piece of trash much better than that to the track next weekend if you like...

[Jim]

there's a bunch of stuff you could use that server for. all open source stuff, but i'm thinking a FreeNAS or FreeBSD. You could even do a web server, or something web based (VPN, OWA, proxy)

[Honclfibr]

there's a bunch of stuff you could use that server for. all open source stuff, but i'm thinking a FreeNAS or FreeBSD. You could even do a web server, or something web based (VPN, OWA, proxy)

You could heat your house with incandescent lightbulbs, too.

[legalspeed]

You could heat your house with incandescent lightbulbs, too.

[daviid]

You could heat your house with incandescent lightbulbs, too.

[daviid]

You ain't just a shittin'; 200mhz cpus, 325w ps., ISA only....

give it back.

I'll bring a piece of trash much better than that to the track next weekend if you like...

actually it is dual ISA/PCI

but like i said, i dont care about that shit. im more interested in using the case.

[noxin]

I can't see much else fitting in that case since most server boards are proprietary formats, even if they fit within a specific form factor, ie: EATX (etc).

If you can post up some pictures of the rear of the chassis (i'm assuming it's rackmount), we can probably give you a better answer.

[daviid]

I can't see much else fitting in that case since most server boards are proprietary formats, even if they fit within a specific form factor, ie: EATX (etc).

If you can post up some pictures of the rear of the chassis (i'm assuming it's rackmount), we can probably give you a better answer.

this is all i could find so far. i wont be back in my office till monday

[evile]

That machine is not worth the power it consumes!

If it has hot swap power supplies - they may be worth eBaying.

[Kurlon]

You could heat your house with incandescent lightbulbs, too.

http://www.x386.net/about.html

Don't knock old hardware. : )

[noxin]

Yeah, that's a boat anchor. Blow it up, melt it down, or whatever you want.

[bigred875]

http://www.x386.net/about.html

Don't knock old hardware. : )

that brings geek to a whole new level

[Cerberus]

http://www.x386.net/about.html

Don't knock old hardware. : )

"the trailing edge of technology" lol.. classic, literally.

[Honclfibr]

Eh. Linux and BSD were written for 386s, they have memory managers. Port it to a 286 and I'll be impressed.

[Kurlon]

Eh. Linux and BSD were written for 386s, they have memory managers. Port it to a 286 and I'll be impressed.

True, but FreeBSD dropped support for 386s back in the 6.x era... haven't tried a recent linux kernel on that thing in ages, dunno how it'd behave considering I know P4 era systems now that a vanilla kernel won't touch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜClinux <- Linux port for MMU-less systems
http://elks.sourceforge.net/FAQ-English.html <- Linux port for 8086 class systems. A 286 would be luxury in comparison.