machine has 6 SCSI (SCA) drive bayes, 2 xeon processors, and 10GB ram.

used hardware raid to configure a 36GB mirror, 73x2 GB stripe, and 140x2
GB stripe.  

Installed Ubuntu 13.10 server with openssh server and dns server
options. 

Disks show up as
/dev/cciss/c0d[012]

apt-get install build-essential emacs24-nox emacs24-el mdadm postfix lib64z1-dev gcc lib64z1-dev

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 0 --chunk 128 --raid-devices 2 /dev/cciss/c0d1 /dev/cciss/c0d2
mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
mkdir -p /news/spool/s2
mount /dev/md0 /news/spool/s2
mkdir -p /var/news/spool/s1
ln -s /var/news/spool/s1 /news/spool/s1
chown -R news:news /news
chown -R news:news /var/news



Diablo is from http://www.openusenet.org/diablo/
http://www.openusenet.org/diablo/download/diablo-5.1-REL.tgz
http://www.openusenet.org/diablo/download/xmake-1.06.tgz