After I was trough the tftp-network-installation-hell again (took me only 2h and a dozen reboots to let the installation starting…), we discovered that the host doesn’t have a hardware-raid. A fast investigation result in that the osm-squid ortelius (which is nearly identical to cassini) and cassini were swap at the hardware installation. Because cassini should run a little copy of the osm-database itself, using it without hardware-raid is no option.

We are unsure what is the best way to handle the situation and how long it will take until cassini can used at the moment.

The toolserver-cluster got two new boxes: daphe, that is going to replace zedler as databasehost of the s2-cluster, and hyacinth that is going to work as host for our /home-directory.

Also they installed new servers for the openstreetmap/wikimedia-cooperation: A openstreetmap-toolserver on that people can play with osm-data (like our toolserver for wikimedia) named cassini, and a squid-proxy named ortelius and a database-host named ptolemy – both to handle the load the wikimedia-projects will create when they will use openstreetmap-maps.

At last two terminal-servers were installed to make it easier for the roots to handle broken servers.

Thanks to Mark and Multichil!