NEW YORK CITY TRASH, any suggestions on how to make use of this server?

[ROKKSTAR]

Well once again the trash in NYC. has been a source of parts.
today while walking home i found an old server.
these are the specs.
dual p90's
everex mb pwx1189b
award bios pn-3000
nx chip set
adaptec aha-2940w
matrox mystique 220 4megs
compaq nic
450 watt pwr supply at
fujitsu m2915q (2.1 gig)scsi 2
sony sdt2000 tape drive
nec cd-rom
64 megs ram
and it runs winnt4.0 sp3.
yes it works, so could i set this up as a BSD box or a linux box? or should i just reformat and have another nt box.
boy do i like free stuff!
ROKK

 

[The Stigenator]

make it a Linux server, too much overload for a NT box.. cant do much with 90 Mhz.

 

[cparker]

You've done better than me. I picked up an aptiva from my trash (also in nyc) which I set up with win95 and gave to a cousin's daughter who is in college and it's been working great. Sounds like you have a great linux box there. The recent distributions will recognize your scsi card. I'm not sure about using dual processors in linux but I believe it's suppported. Certainly dual 90s would be plenty powerful enough for typical linux server aps or even just a workstation to play with. My only problem with linux on a p90 was when I loaded up the x-window interfaces, especially gnome. I had an archaic graphics card though, and if you have any decent pci graphics cardin the box with a few megs of ram you should be fine (I have an S3 running on a pentium pro 200 which runs great with x-windows) Or you could trash the MB and CPUs and replace them, but then you would probably need to replace the ram and it's not worth the effort.

Or you could just go and keep on running NT 4. It will certainly run NT server, although you might want to add some more ram if you go that route.