I'd like recommendations on which hardware and OS to choose to most easily, reliably, and economically run Koha, and only Koha? I've been doing some volunteer work installing Koha at my daughter's school. I've installed Koha on my old Apple PowerBook G4, and gotten it to work just fine, but it is much too slow. We also have an older Dell Server. We have tried to install Koha on Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows 2000 Server, and each time run into considerable problems. So many problems, in fact, that I have decided it might be easiest just to purchase and donate a machine to the school. We don't need a very powerful server: our library is small, about 10,000 books; we have about 35 students. So I would very much appreciate it if someone would let me know what hardware and OS Koha "expects", that is: (1) what hardware will give us the least trouble in setting up Koha, and please be as specific as possible, such as a Dell [model, CPU, etc.]; and (2) what OS running on that hardware will require the least troubleshooting, etc., to get everything running, and again please be specific as possible, such as Ubuntu N.n, etc.? In sum, what is the most standard hardware and OS configuration for Koha? We really need to get this up and running as soon as possible. We have spent so much time with installing different versions of perl modules, yaz, etc., or finding drivers for various hardware, etc. What we really need now is a machine and OS that will allow us a clean install without a lot of debugging and troubleshooting. Thanks very much, Roger Hart Asst. Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Koha-installation%3A-which-hardware-and-OS--tf4250042.... Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hello Roger, Friday, August 10, 2007, 7:18:43 PM, you wrote: RH> I'd like recommendations on which hardware and OS to choose to most easily, RH> reliably, and economically run Koha, and only Koha? RH> We don't need a very powerful server: our library is small, about 10,000 RH> books; we have about 35 students. for 35 students every computer will be good (only no Celeron;) i suggest Core Duo 2 with min. 2GB of memory.. RH> (1) what hardware will give us the RH> least trouble in setting up Koha, and please be as specific as possible, RH> such as a Dell [model, CPU, etc.]; for example: we have now : 1. Apache with mod_perl (without mod_perl KOHA is useless work) and other stuff like postfix, samba, etc. Pentium 4 3 Ghz 1MB/800 Mhz, 1,5GB Memory, 3Com ethernet cards, ata 2. Database Pentium 4 2,6 Ghz, 1,5GB Memory,36 x 4 SCSI now we will be migrating to dedicated server for KOHA: Fujitsu-Siemens PY TX200S3fi/X E5310 Xeon DP E5310 1.60GHz 2x4MB 1066MHz 4GB 2x2GB Base FBD667 PC2-5300F d ECC DVD-ROM ATAPI HD SAS 3Gb/s 146GB 10k hot plug 3.5" szt.2 RAID-Ctrl 0-Channel SAS 128MB LP LSI this all for: 100 staff and about ~18000 students RH> 2) what OS running on that hardware RH> will require the least troubleshooting, OS: PLD and OpenSUSE soon only OpenSUSE tested on Debian too:) RH> In sum, what is the most standard hardware and OS configuration for Koha? everything what working with linux:) RH> What we really need now is a machine and OS that will allow us a clean RH> install without a lot of debugging and troubleshooting. remember mod_perl is first what you must install:) test for 2000 requests (Concurrency Level 20): CGI (standard work of koha): 30.209421 sec mod_perl: 2.180615 sec bye -- The Main Library of Szczecin University. Computerization Department. http://bg.univ.szczecin.pl
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