Firing up the Big RedBox

I've been taking our archives of the old site, and building a new section of the site that has all the archive material - as much as we have anyway...

So, I have a bunch of material on my servers here in the basement. But, about 5 years ago, Ian brought over one of the old geekforce servers. Its a custom geekforce server running bsd. We spraypainted the case red.

Tomorrow, job 1 is firing that thing up, and getting it on the network.

BSD single user mode, here I come!

Update on Sat, March 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM by David

So the Big RedBox boots up, and it was pretty easy to login to it, considering the root password was written in sharpy on the case!

There is a TON of archive material on this machine.

I'm taking photos as I go, and will be posting them.

There is alot of archive material on this machine. So incorporating it is going to take some time.

We use a Host/CMS in-a-box called squarespace. One of the things I dont like is that I cant just upload a ton of HTML, and have it all work. Its got to live in a squarespace template. I'm hoping that since I will have created the pages, I can edit their template, and voila.

The Big RedBox speaks appletalk! So, I should be able to see it upstairs, but this has not really been a priority right now. There are OLD files on this machine...

     

Update on Wed, March 28, 2012 at 9:15 PM by The Geekforce

as an additional aside, this server runs a home made apache binary. and the web server's runtime user name is 'steven'.

Just strikes me funny,