I think I mentioned in my previous post I was planning to butcher our leechbox. It’s a dual processor Pentium II Xeon 450MHz, with 512MB of RAM running Debian. Due to recent hard drive re-arrangements in our main file server, I had a few extra drives laying around.

I thought I’d start off by changing the NIC, as we now have a Gigabit switch I pulled one of the controllers out of my server (it had three), but then Linux didn’t want to boot – I figured it’d be easier to just re-install anyway seeing as the original boot drive was about to become part of a RAID array. So, new Intel PRO/1000MT adaptor, one 20GB to boot (pun intended), and two 40s to be put in to RAID 0. Sif I’m going to sacrifice half my disk space 😛

I chose to go the manual route this time, using the Debian net install disc and only installing the base system. Samba was the only hiccup of note, and Apache’s stupid alias to /usr/share/images (thanks Insidius). Software wise everything is working fine, but the hard disks are getting damn hot – and I can’t install any more fans to the case. I think I have no choice but to actually rebuild all the components in to a new (cooler) case, might want to think about upgrading that 250W power supply while I’m at it 😐 TBC.