NewsFactor: The Linux Server at the Heart of Our WLAN

“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…”

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