Tag: indiebox
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Home server step 1: assemble and test hardware
I got two brand-new 2TB drives for a RAID1 data partition. It will hold all the stuff that I don’t want to lose. For the root partition, I’m reusing a 400G drive that I own already. I’m downloading the most recent Arch Linux download from here. I’m using bit torrent, because big downloads are expensive…
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Rebuilding my home server with Indie Box
My wife and I have run a server at home pretty much continuously since we came to California in 1995. I remember carrying stacks of Slackware floppy disks home from work: whatever code was needed, I downloaded it at work to a 1.44M floppy disk, and installed it when I got home. Lots of driver…