:NewsFactor: The Linux Server at the Heart of Our WLAN
NewsFactor: The Linux Server at the Heart of Our WLAN Jul 11, 2003, 11 :30 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (5951 reads) (Other stories by Mark Gibbs)
"Last week we got our Raritan Paragon keyboard, video and monitor switch up and running so that we could build the wireless LAN for the Web Metrics conference without having to run to and from the computer room while we installed software. And the first thing on our installation agenda was Red Hat Linux 9.
"We had successfully upgraded an old server from Red Hat Linux 7 to Red Hat Linux 9 but its performance wasn't great and we needed more RAM. So we visited our friends at MJP Computers and purchased a white box system with 2G bytes of RAM (we have big plans) and a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) drive.
"But when we tried to set up Red Hat Linux 9 the installer complained that there was no disk drive. After lots of research, including conferring with Aron Hsiao, author of Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux 9 in 24 Hours (a fine introduction to Linux), we discovered that while Serial ATA works fine for Windows you have to do strange and arcane things when you're using Linux (such as recompiling the kernel). Unfortunately these things don't seem guaranteed to work. If you know how to make Serial ATA drives work under Red Hat Linux 9, please drop us a note and we will tell the world..."
