Last night I figured out what was wrong with the computer I’m rebuilding for the rack. Turns out it was the motherboard. I took all of the parts out and installed the Syntax Motherboard I used to have in my main system. No more CRC Errors, no more errors of any type….but I need to pick up some more standard DDR memory for it (all I have in it now is 64MB). CentOS runs OK under 64 Mb and the only problem I have had so far was from the PSMOUSE advanced mouse driver and my KVM Switch. I dropped the mouse driver down to the Generic one, no wheel but it doesn’t do all sorts of unexpected things now.
I plan on using this machine as a development web server so I can free up the resources used on my desktop machine. It will also be more like what my web host is running. (CentOS 4.6)
I can’t afford to buy CPanel for a development machine, so I’ll use Ravencore, and follow this guide for some of the basic stuff. Since Ravencore is written in PHP and bash scripts, I might add some of my own features to it. I’ve written independent management scripts before… maybe I can make it mimic CPanel/WHM more closely.