Zend Optimizer in BlueOnyx

Solarspeed.net has released an optional update for BlueOnyx. Now we can run Zend Optimizer for php with a simple yum command:

• # yum install php-zend-optimizer.i386

More information in the mailing list.

*.tar.gz?

Do you need to pack a big folder? While trying compilations and diverse patch files my last project (new cobalt kernel) I needed to pack the source folder a lot of times. I use tar and gzip commands to do that but using separately. I can recommend this super-easy guide to pack in one command.

It's very easy: $ tar czvf myfolder.tar.gz abcfolder/

I don't know why but my memory always forget the options of a command, this is the reason of this post.

Finally I have a new kernel for my Strongbolt servers

After a lot of time working on it, I have a new kernel for my SB RaQ's. For now I only have compiled the SB1 Gen III version but it's running very good in my develop box. You can check the picture. It the latest Centos 4 kernel 2.6.9-89.0.18.EL.

I have a warning message while booting, that says: unable to initializetable 'filter' I have to double check but seems with not a lot of importance. Now I go to compile Gen V version and SB2 versions.

Stay tunned!

Update 30-12-2009: Everything is working now, just to actiuvate some more options in menuconfig before compile.

Finally: Qube 2 NAS!!!!!

Tonight I managed to get running Samba passwords. After all it was no so difficult: I just needed to read the Samba documentation to find that I have to set my own password. I have 'Unix password Sync' parameter but I also neded to set password with smbpasswd from a SSH terminal session.
When I typed # smbpasswd from the command line, it asked for new password. After set it I was able to log from Windows Vista a save files. I'll test the write speed of the Qube 2 but I think it will be enough good to use it as a NAS. well, I need a bigger hard disk but this is the easy job!!!!

Confirmed: No more black screens.

In this post I was speaking about my problems of black screens in my SGI 1600SW TFT monitor with a nVidia Quadro NVS 285 graphics card. I did small test with a new Quadro FX 570 and seemed good but I didn't have enough time to do extensive tests. Now, with more than one week running in this configuration I can say that: The problem has gone!!! No problems in more than a week and a speed performance increased more than I was thinking!!!

You can see the differences between both cards:

SATA in a Cobalt Qube 2?

I have a SIL SATA card what I was bought to use with my main server with Strongbolt 2 but the idea was to boot from it and... this is not possible. This week I was playing with my RaQ's and I decided to test this card with the Qube 2. I know the Qube 2 ROM can't detect it or boot from it (normal) but I was thinking that maybe the Debian kernel can do.

This is the Qube 2 with the Silicon Image SATA card and a Seagate 7200.10 160 GB attached:


The kernel detected the card and the hard disk as you can see here:

Now it's time to learn how Debian works and mount the disk. Maybe tomorrow...

Cobalt RaQ: Main partition almost full!!

I'm preparing a RaQ 4r with the original Cobalt OS with all the updates (including Zeffie's ones). Everything worked good except the update called Security-Update-4.4.8. The web installer returned "4015 Problem verifying package component". A manual installation said the same...

Then I unpacked all the rpms and tried to check using the same command than the installer script but without redirecting the console outut to /dev/null. The log shown what I have space problems in the main partition: 178 MB were not enough!!!

The solution is easy to understand: I have to clean as much as posible but What Can I trash?. /tmp and the logs were not so much... Finally the solution was to move something to the big /home partition and make a sym link. After a fast search, only the /usr/doc folder is easy to move without problems:

[root] # mkdir /home/usr/
[root] # mv /usr/doc /home/usr/doc
[root] # ln -s /home/usr/doc /usr/doc

Now to follow with the updates...

Black screen on Nvidia Quadro NVS and SGI 1600SW

From some time ago I have my SGI 1600SW monitor with its Multilink Adapter attached to my Dell workstation. I was pleased with the image quality, although its slow refresh. But sometimes when rebooting or when the monitor turns on after an sleep I had a black screen. I was thinking that the problem could come from the monitor or the adapter but I have tried with my second 1600SW and the results were the same. Then I plugged my Fuel and the problem dissapeared. Now i have some problems with the V10 gfx card of the Fuel but this is another problem.Obviously my small Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 was the problem. It has some problems with rare resolutions.

After some days thinking which card I have to buy, ATI-AMD FirePro or a bigger Nvidia Quadro, I had good luck: A new Dell workstation arrived to my office with a Nvidia Quadro FX570. I decided to try at home and the result was fantastic: no more black screens. Now I'm waiting for a new Quadro 570 that I bought last thrusday.

New pictures!

A lot of months ago I said "next week pictures". I think I wrote this more than one time. This weekend I started to clean my machines to move my desktop and I decided to take some pictures. No fantastic ones but this is an start.


You can see my new pictures of my Octane2, fuel and the 1600SW in my Flickr account.

Solarspeed BlueQuartz "unofficial" BETA quality updates

Surfing the Solarspeed.net web site I found in the Knowledge Base a very interesting article: How to install a special updates made by Solarspeed. From a long time there is no a lot -or enough- official updates but there is a lot of things that must be updated/upgraded. Michael Satuber and his team published a lot of modifications for a BlueQuartz server and only a few tweaks are needed to install them. They said that are beta updates but enough stable to use in production.

A small list of improvements (from the original text):

1. Ability to switch from PAM based authentication to flat files again (minor performance loss, but a lot more stable).
2. Updated YUM GUI with the ability to exclude RPMs from updates.
3. German and Danish translation of the GUI.
4. Improved Active Monitor.
5. Removal of the defunct APOP checkbox from the GUI.
6. Ability to disable user owned webs (Example: http://www.company.com/~user/ )
7. Ability to render FTP usage of non site admin users unuseable (they can still login, but not do anything).
8. Strong password enforcement. On adding a user or changing his password, the new passwordis checked to see if it is strong enough. Only strong passwords will be accepted. Additionally it is no longer possible to use a password that is identical to the username. Furthermore the strength of the new password is shown while the new password is typed in.
9. Added the module base-phpsysinfo to the GUI.
10. Upgraded CMU package.
11. Various minor and major fixes to existing code.

I don't have a BlueQuartz server, but a Strongbolt one. and everything runs good!

The original article is here.

Sun Linux in a Cobalt LX50

Only for play a bit with may new server I installed the original Sun Linux 5.0 what was shipped with the server. First I did a clean install to see what happens, but the Restore discs didn't made the Service Partition.

After some reading of the manuals I found that the Service Partition has to be made from the Diagnostics CD. The seller sent all the originals discs with the machine and no effort of downloading nothing was necessary.

Once I had the service software loaded I played a bit and found a software called Service Partition Administration. I think this part is not in the handbook. After the software appears in the screen, a new menu is showed. It has some features like a hard disk partitioning software: View service partitions, create partitions, format, etc.

But when I selected Create a new Service Partition, it says that the hard disk must be empty. And now, What? Some more play and some reboots later I used the Go to DOS option of the Service Software. There is a DOS OS and it has FDSIK, not the usual MS-DOS FDISK but similar. If you delete all the partition of the hard disk, remeber to Save the changes (in the MS-DOS utility was not necessary.

After the hard disk is erased and the server rebooted, you can create the new Service Partition. One more reboot with the Diagnostics CD and the Software can format and install the diverse diagnostics and configuration programs.

When everything is ready, come the easy thing: install Sun Linux 5.0: Just boot up the server with the first restore CD and do an automatic install... tomorrow some updates will be applied and see what happens.

See you.

My Cobalt collection is growing...

Yes! I have a new Cobalt server. Really it's a rebranded Intel server but it has a nice blue face at front. It's (or she is) a Cobalt LX50. One of the first models of this series because later the LX50 lost the Cobalt brand from the front a was named only as Sun LX50.


At the beginning it was shipped with Sun Linux 5 but can run Linux, Solaris X86 or Windows. I'm thinking it will be a good server for BlueOnyx. I powered up this afternoon and I'm surprised with it's noise. It's loud but a lot less than my other 1U servers (V120, GigaByte, etc.). Maybe it has regulable fans.

This weekend I expect to have this machine running with BlueOnyx. Let's see...

Hey boys!!!

No much work done from the last post. Holidays, job and my children are getting me all my free time. This week my children started school and maybe now is going better!!!

Today I powered up my Strongbolt 2 RaQ 550 and I yum-updated it. I had two issues with yum:

1. First is what nuonce repo is gone. Easy: # rm /etc/yum.repos.d/NuOnce.repo
2. Second issue is not more difficult: There is a conflict between the kernel update and iptables. Really, in Strongbolt we are not using this kernel and we can set to not download it. But I'm not using iptables and, like this post in the forums says, we can forget the iptables update: # yum --exclude=iptables update

PD: Rumours and more: OSOffice had some problems and now seems they are reorganizing the company. More information here. I hop OSOffice return to the good way and finish this rare Strongbolt 2 update, maybe we finally can have a SATA installation disk?

I'm in Twitter...

... as you can see on the sidebar.

Projects are going

A lot of time without any entry in the blog but I'm not stopped. First, this weekend I installed Debian in my old and lovely Cobalt Qube 2. After two bad attempts, I managed to install successfully after unselecting the DNS server package: BIND was halting the Qube at boot, maybe because it was misconfigured, but due I don't need Bind in the Qube this is not a problem.

The second project is find a way to run my RaQCop firewall as reverse proxy. I managed to compile the whole IPCop distribution with multi threading SSL, and after I understood how the IPCop compiling method works, I was able to compile Pound 2.4.5. This week I will write the scripts to install and uninstall Pound in a IPCop box and later test if it runs OK.

The last job is to write a HOWTO install Pound in an IPCop machine, sure only if Pound works and passes the test.

And that's all for today.. stay tunned!!!

Unix in a low cost laptop (part 5)

Starting september 2008 I was able to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my Acer Aspire 5633 (5630) but disabling de ACPI functionality. In that case start the installed WiFi was impossible: the radio always was off and the special buttons were inoperable.

Yesterday, navigating in diverse forums, I found some messages about the pre-release of OpenSolaris 2009.06 and I decided to look for a solution for my problems. I found this bug in OpenSolaris Bugzilla and..... YES!!! Running!!!

Tonight I'm writing this post from OpenSolaris 2008.11. To install it I edited the LiveCD Grub by adding -B disable-pcic=true and then the same in the Grub cofiguration once installed in hard disk. All the hardware is working except the network interface (Broadcom NetXtreme) but I know how to install the driver because I installed the last time.

To modify the Grub configuration:

1. Open a terminal an be root: $ su
2. Start nautilus: # nautilus
3. Navigate to the folder /rpool/boot/grub/
4. Open menu.lst

My menu.lst file is:

splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
background 215ECA
timeout 30
default 0
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground d25f00
background 115d93
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics,disable-pcic=true
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------

title OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 text boot
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,disable-pcic=true
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

And that's all for today, now play with this beast OS.

New RaQCop firewall

The lasts days I was fighting with the Apache 2 reverse proxy functions to use two web servers with my ADSL connection. Unfortunately I had problems to redirect all the content I want. For this reason I decided to try an authentic Reverse Proxy software like Pound. But install Pound in one of the servers its not enough for me ;D

A new old project is alive: Run my own firewall in one server and install on it the Reverse Proxy. Just in time this week arrived a new toy: a Symantec Velociraptor 1100. In fact, the Velociraptor is a Cobalt RaQ 4i with a Special developed firmware and software (Axent originally). My Velociraptor came with a Cobalt 2.3.39 stored in the ROM but it doesn't shows the Cobalt logo at the display. Also has a Intel Pro 100 dual ethernet PCI-X card:


Due that the I don't have the original Velociraptor sofware, and I don't want to look for it because is old, not customizable and needs an expensive paid license I decided to install RaQCop. I had played with RaQCop before but not enogh time. RaQCop is a special version of ipCop that comes with a patched kernel for the RaQ hardware, LCD utils and a new administration web theme.

There is another firewall software ready for cobalt servers: Firebolt. Developed by the same team as Strongbolt, Firebolt is a port of the ClarkConnect firewall software, but this is a paid version (like Strongbolt) and I'm not sure which features are included by default. Maybe Firebolt is better solution for a home or office use as there is a very good manual and the support from ClarckConnect and OSOffice seems to be great. Firebolt will be the next game.

First of all the Velociraptor needed a ROM upgrade. Fortunately, I have a hard disk with the old CobaltOS ready and the Velociraptor boots from it. I get the necessary files for the upgrade from OSOffice, following this guide but doing a backup of the old ROM first. If you don't know which ROM maker your server has, you have to open the server and look to the chip as here is explained.

1. Login via SSH as root.


2. Go to temporary folder: # cd /tmp.


3. Download the flashtool (in my case is ST branded): # wget http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/roms/flashtool-amd-st.


4. Make the file executable: # chmod +x flashtool-amd-st.


5. Backup the original cmos and then download it with a FTP software:
   

   # ./flashtool-amd-st -v -r > cobalt-vr-2.3.39-1M.rom
   ./flashtool-amd-st: searching for PCI 10b9:7101 : found it at /proc/bus/pci/00/03.0
   ./flashtool-amd-st: systype = COBT_3K
   ./flashtool-amd-st: bank 0: ST Microelectronics M29F080A 1MB
   ./flashtool-amd-st: Using pthread POSIX real time scheduling.
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 0
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 1
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 2
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 3
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 4
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 5
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 6
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 7
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 8
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 9
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 10
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 11
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 12
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 13
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 14
   ./flashtool-amd-st: reading page 15
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing buffers



6. Download the new ROM, this is for a GENIII RaQ, not valid for a RaQ 550: # wget http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/roms/cobalt-2.10.3-ext3-1M.rom.


7. And now the critic job, write the new ROM:
   

   # ./flashtool-amd-st -v -w cobalt-2.10.3-ext3-1M.rom
   ./flashtool-amd-st: searching for PCI 10b9:7101 : found it at /proc/bus/pci/00/03.0
   ./flashtool-amd-st: systype = COBT_3K
   ./flashtool-amd-st: bank 0: ST Microelectronics M29F080A 1MB
   ./flashtool-amd-st: Using pthread POSIX real time scheduling.
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 0
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 0 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 1
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 1 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 2
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 2 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 3
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 3 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 4
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 4 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 5
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 5 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 6
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 6 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 7
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 7 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 8
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 8 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 9
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 9 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 10
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 10 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 11
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 11 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 12
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 12 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 13
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 13 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 14
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 14 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: writing page 15
   ./flashtool-amd-st: buffer page 15 does not exist - creating it
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing buffers
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 0 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 1 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 2 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 3 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 4 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 5 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 6 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 7 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 8 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 9 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 10 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 11 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 12 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 13 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 14 to ROM... verifying... done
   ./flashtool-amd-st: flushing block 15 to ROM... verifying... done



8. Now, if no errors appeared while the ROM upgrade, you can reboot. If you have errors you can repeat the process many time as you need. If still having errors write the backup ROM another time and DON'T REBOOT OR SHUTDOWN BEFORE THE ROM IS OK. The ROM is read at boot time and if it's wrong, you will convert your RaQ in a good case spare.

Be carefull to assure which type of EPROM you have. If your server has an Intel ROM chip you need a different flashtool created by Tim Hockin, as explained in the OSOffice guide.

The next Step is download the RaQCop image. I used a 128MB flash card as you can see in the next picture, but it was flashed some months ago:


RaQCop detects the four ethernet ports then I have 4 different zones: Green for the intranet, Red for de ADSL uplink, Blue for the wireless access point and Orange for the servers. Each zone works in its subnet and if I want to connect to a computer in a different zone I have to prepare a VPN or pinhole: a bit difficult for a newbbie as me but very safe.

Here you are the firewall running. Some adjustements had to be done in the GUI theme but it's so nice. To be continued...

Reverse Proxy

Or how to use two web servers for different websites with only one external ip...

One thing that I want to test is Reverse Proxy with Apache. With my new server ready is time to try because my old one hasn't finished some jobs and I want to start to develop my new website with the new Strongbolt 2.

I don't know why but in Internet you can find a lot of descriptions and forums posts about the Apache's mod_Proxy, I can't find one configuration that works with my setup. I found an easy guide to use Reverse Proxy with Apache here. Following the guide I only needed to add this two lines in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

ProxyPass http://www.mywebsite.com http://internal1.example.com/
ProxyPassReverse http://www.mywebsite.com http://internal1.example.com/

But this is not enough: After some googling and a lots of tests I found a configuration that works: I need to write the Reverse Proxy configuration in a virtual host inside the httpd.conf of the first machine:

<VirtualHost 192.168.2.105:80>
ServerAdmin admin@mywebsite.com
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAlias www.mywebsite.com
ErrorLog logs/titox_net_log

ProxyRequests Off

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://192.168.2.102/
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.2.102/
</VirtualHost>

The main fault usually is ServerName and ServerAlias directives, usually everybody forgot to write the ServerAlias (like me). Remeber to stop the Apache HTTP server before edit the config file or Apache will overwrite the changes, In a BQ box:

1. # /sbin/service httpd stop
2. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
3. # /sbin/service httpd start

Now, when somebody writes www.mywebsite.com in his browser, the main server redirects transparently to my second server.

No more configuration is needed because the mod_proxy is enabled by default in Stronbolt.

UPDATE:
In fact, the first Apache server is redirecting all the incomming requests that are not in its virtual sites to the second one. Another thing is I can't login in the administrator panel of the second server.... more tests to be done.

Developing in a Bluequartz box

Nuonce published a long time ago a package that installs all the development resources needed for a BQ box, but in the last releases of BQ, BlueOnyx or Strongbolt the package doesn't want to install. The solution acording to this posts in the Bluequartz list is to install everything from yum:

In one line:

• yum install autoconf automake14 automake15 automake16 automake17 automake binutils bison cpp cvs diffstat flex gcc gcc-c++ gcc-objc gettext glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-kernheaders libobjc libstdc++-devel ncurses-devel patch patchutils pkgconfig rpm-build

Now we can compile in our boxes.

Fuel goes Gigabit !!!

From a long time that everybody want his systems with GigaBit EtherNET. In SGI systems there is a few options and usually are expensive. In fact, SGI cards are really 3Com rebranded ones and a mod can be done. All cards have a Tigon 3 chipset (Broadcom 5701) but with different PCI identification in its EEPROM.

First mod was a new driver kernel, you can find all the information in this post of the nekochan forums, but with this kind of mod the card only runs in a patched IRIX OS.

The best solution now is two modify directly the EEPROM with the ethtool software included in linux distributions. You can find how to do this mod at the end of this post. In my case I tried with my old Fedora 7 installation I have in my workstation with no success, then I recovered and old Gentoo LiveCD 00.2006 and applied the modifications.

Now I have my fuel with GigaBit EtherNET but I have to end my network wiring at home!!!!

Nuonce Networks is closed

Unfortunately, starting 2009 we had very bad news: Nuonce Networks ceased its operations.
Brian N. Smith, the owner of Nuonce, run the company in his spare time and last year he had a little time for the company. Brian is the developer of the CentOS + BlueQuartz CD used in a lot of servers and has a lot of important packages for BlueQuartz and Strongbolt. Fortunately the Support Forum is still there for archival purposes.

Now one thing to do in our Strongbolt instalation due the mising Nuonce repo:

• rm /etc/yum.repos.d/NuOnce.repo

If you want the Nuonce Installation CD, you can download it from SolarSpeed but maybe is worth to test the new BlueOnyx from the same developers.

Preparing my new main server with Strongbolt 2

Yes, I haven't writen so much lately but this doesn't meant that I didn't had been busy. At the end of 2008 the Open Source Office (OSOffice) released an update for Strongbolt: Strongbolt 2. This update is composed by some packages that are installed via the BlueQuartz GUI. The most important part of the update is the new ROM for our Cobalt servers (RaQ and Qube). This new ROM is ready to detect SATA disk if using Silicon Image PCI cards and USB disks.


With this new ROM the OSOffice team developed a new reinstall system via an USB stick: after the server is upgraded with Strongbolt 2 and it has the new ROM, if the server needs a new installation of the OS, only setting the boot disk as sda1 (USB) in the ROM configuration is enough to reinstall al the system without any problem or any other computer as Installation server. Unfortunately the reinstallation only works in IDE hard disks. I tried to modify the installer stick to force Anaconda to install the OS in a SATA disk (now the USB stick is sdb1) but after a lot of tests in my Qube3, I had any success. I think a new Anaconda image has to be done and I don't have the necessary knowledge to do this job.

There is another important upgrade: PHP5, but only for the virtual sites while the BlueQuartz Panel (now called OSPanel) remains working in PHP4. But this is enough to install the latests PHP softwares we need.


After this small introduction what I did today: my main idea was install Strongbolt 2 in my RaQ550 that I had sleeping for some months. I had installed Strongbolt 2 in january to test the system but no more job was done. This afternoon I decided to put inside two Seagate 7200.7 of 120 GB from a RaQ4r and reinstall everything from the USB stick but when Anaconda is installing the rpm's in the server it reboots. I tried some more times but with the same result. In the OSOffice forum there is a post about the same problem with 80GB disks. Very odd as these disk were working in a RaQ4r nicely.

Due the problems with the hard disks I changed the RaQ550 by a RaQ3i upgraded with a 500MHz CPU and second IDE channel. The hard disks worked well here and now I have a new server ready to work. I want to use it for develop my personal website and my own email server at home.

Unfortunately my RaQ550 has to sleep some more time until next test that will be install the new Strongbolt 2.5 when available. The SB 2.5 will be a mix of Strongbolt 2 and BlueOnyx and, maybe, it could be installed in a new and BIG BIG BIG sata hard disk.

P.D.: I have to make some photos of the servers and SGI workstations but...

This the new OSPanel appearance: