Well I found the “trick” to setting up this compaq, apprently, it doesn’t believe in CD booting.
stupid ass server 
Now I have to diagnose why on startup it prompts “press F1 to continue, press F10 to enter system diagnostic” … and for some reason grub has stopped the server from accessing it’s “bios interface on the disk”
Ugh, Oh well, I’m at work and about to leave, just thought I’d update the one or two people that actually read this.
119MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
w0000t
I was recompiling the kernel on one of my linux boxen and I noticed this after a recompile.
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
Seeing as the machine has 1gb of ram, I was a little puzzled. It seems obvious enough, but I always thought that a HIGH MEM enabled kernel was for 2gb plus (as the options are 4gb or 64gb) but apparently, it is for anything 896mb+
Weird number, cbf’d researchng it.
(The option is under Processor Features -> Hign Memory in the 2.6(.15) kernel)
Ugh, Still waiting on Updates.
I forced the timestamp on the other post just so it comes in from when i started writing it.
The rest of this article is basically directionless ranting and raving.
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I have been looking at making a load balance between my two main download links (Rikku and Vandread) since i’m doing a Debian update at the moment, and Vandread is saturated.
But Rikku is sitting there with almost no utilization. Grrr.
I sm just putting my idea out there, but I am considering searching for and modifying or writing a modification to squid to allow it to sense load from my gateways using my “remote data daemon” (how my sidebar gets those figures at the moment, they are updated every second at the server and every 20 seconds in my sidebar at the moment)
Basically squid would have to query the gateway periodically to check load and then use the link with the least load, it could probably tie in with my usage monitors and then try to avoid pushing Vandread over it is data cap (since my routed range is handled on Vandread’s link).
I have got a machine I was working on for this specifically, it just used a catch to make a host route for in use connections to the current and change the default link when it sensed load was too high on one link.
Worked ok, but it is very … nasty, especially to UDP traffic, but it was only a proxy server, so it was not too bad.
Past Tense, because I trashed the box and moved back to my original proxy when I got sick of the lack of reliability (in the box, not the OS).
Anyway, here is an image of how my sidebar looks like at the moment. Image Here