hi smart_idiot,

i guess i wasnt kidding when i said i was secretly looking for the Windows disk. i can happily say that i gave up on Linux and now am running on Windows [grin].

this is for the dedicated server for my MORPG. i put togeather the machine and installed Fedora on it. but i was having a hell of a time trying to get the server to compile. furthermore, i was getting a lot of problems trying to setup the MySQL database as well (i got errors manually dowloading and using the installer script, using yum, using apt-get, AND using up2date). after ripping out all my hair for days i decided to just go with Windows.

the only reason i was using Linux in the first place was because Windows didnt support RAID 1, however i have found a solution to this problem. im just going to write a Python script that will periodically make a copy of the database onto the second HD. ironically, i think this will be better then RAID 1 since it will be faster to make writes and will use less disk space. (plus i can have the script do other things, like compress the data first, make archives, upload to a web server, etc..)

Well, so long, then.