Annvix saves the day at Northlands
Got an email from my dad yesterday morning which essentially said “If you can get Annvix installed on this IBM server today, great, if not I’ve been told to install Windows Server 2003 on it tomorrow”.
Ouch.
My dad works for Northlands Park in Edmonton, AB, Canada, which is the largest venue for hosting shows in Edmonton (the Oilers play hockey here, all the big shows and big concerts are done on the grounds).
So I went out, took my 1.2-RELEASE CD with me, and within an hour of getting there had Annvix installed and configured (with apache, php, MySQL, and samba). This was actually a pretty sweet machine (although it’s not optimized for booting as the time from grub to a login prompt was shorter than the time it took for the BIOS to fully post). It’s a dual xeon 3GHz machine with hardware RAID and 4GB of RAM. Northlands is using it for an intranet server that my dad is developing.
I wasn’t sure what to expect, but was very pleased with the install of this machine and how Annvix handled it. It didn’t properly write the SCSI module to use to /etc/modules.conf, not sure why yet, but I think that’s more kudzu auto-detection than anything else. Otherwise, the install was quite smooth.
I’l have to find out for sure, but I think this is an IBM pSeries machine.
