All, This is highly off-topic, but (imho) important enough to just send out anyway. I am moving the www.pdp11.nl site to a new server, for two reasons: - it is currently on one of our production servers, which must stop (for Dutch taxing reasons.) - it will be moved to the colo room of my isp, who have offered to host it to "help the good cause". yay! So.. new server, then. Since it's a DEC Archive, local friends have made sure I understood (...) how important it was that it'd run on Classic Hardware. Trust me, they've mentioned that to no end.... I ended up deciding on an Intel-based box, rather than a VAX or Alpha, mostly because the box has about 400GB of EIDE-based disk storage, which wont happen in a VAX. I decided against an Alpha for other reasons, so ended up with Intel. New machine is a Digital Server 1206, with (now) dual P2/333, but probably with faster CPU's as soon as I find them... the box can handle up to 533, which means it'll end with P2/466's. It has 512MB of RAM- the mainboard wont support more. Disk space is set up using a mirror volume of two 9GB disks off a Mylex DAC960 for the OS, and then a Promise EIDE controller for the four EIDE disks, which are in RAID5 configuration. No problems there. The real bitch seems to be the choice of which OS to run on it. I prefer OpenBSD for such jobs, but alas, that (a) wont do SMP, and (b), much worse, it doesnt support the Mylex. I just did a test install of Linux on it, and that works, so at least I can set it up. So.. remembering the "which OS" discussion earlier, I need a lean distro of Linux with no GUI crap, including all the stuff one'd need for a dedicated web server. Anyone here (Jay?) have put something together, or, much better, have added Mylex to OpenBSD? ? :) Please reply *off-list* , I will summarize later- we dont want a massive debate here. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA