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I made a blog post about an old IBM server! (blog.krafting.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17048910

Got this server for free, so I talked about it on my blog !

Do you guy have any ideas on what I could run or install on this thing ? (For fun of course, nothing serious!)

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I’m pretty young, so I never used floppy before

How do you kids keep getting on my lawn.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    holy crap does that bring back memories

    i would prolly try and get some kind of linux variant installed for containerized nonsense

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I did get Debian 12 installed on this thing, hard drive configuration was awful (you need a CD for that!!)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    ha, yeah.. always keep a burner just in case. i installed a lot of these things. i remember having dozens of those white/blue ibm server disks

    pretty damn reliable once up and running. i only ever had wear and tear failures.. fans/drives

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm glad I still have a CD-DVD burner on my laptop for this ahah!

    I still can't figure out if there is a web interface for "managing" this thing, I know IPMI work, but I'm starting to test things around those ASM ports in the back... Do you have any insight on that by any chance ?

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Holy crap, I have this exact same server that I got for free and I have been trying to get rid of it

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