Here's a description of the hardware components in the machine
(named hailstorm) and how they're installed:

Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 motherboard (purchased sometime around
April, 2004) BIOS version 3.09
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s2882_104.pdf

2 AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz CPUs (purchased sometime around April, 2004)
http://www.mushkin.com/Memory/Proline/991143.aspx

4 Mushkin 991143 1GB Memory Modules PPRO3200 ECC REG (4GB RAM -
purchased sometime in 2004 or 2005)

Emphase FDM80SQI2G 2GB IDE Flash drive - serial: 20110112AA5B00000041
(boot device - purchased 2011-04-05, installed 2011-05-02)

Western Digital Caviar 500G WD5001AALS Hard Drive

Western Digital Caviar 500G WD5001AALS Hard Drive

     Neither the motherboard, nor the CPUs are "new" enough to have
hardware virtual machine support.

     2 of the memory modules are plugged into the slots for CPU0 and 2
are plugged into the slots for CPU1.

     The Emphase flash drive is plugged directly into the Primary
IDE/PATA connector on the motherboard and set as Master.  It contains
GRUB in the MBR, a partition with an ext4 Debian Linux root filesystem,
and a small, bootable FAT32 MS-DOS partition for motherboard BIOS flash
utility.

     The WD drives are plugged directly into the SATA ports on the
motherboard and are mirrored by the kernel as /dev/md0.  That mirror has
a partition set as a physical volume for LVM.  LVM allocates logical
volumes from that space for:

/home
/var
/usr/share
/usr/src