From: "Miguel González Castaños" <mgc@tid.es>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Installing Linux RedHat 7.3 on a PowerEdge 4400
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E5DF601.CC4125BF@tid.es> (raw)
dear all,
I have to install a PE4400 with Linux RedHat 7.3, previously installed
with a Windows 2000 Server in RAID 1-0 configuration.
Since I am not used to install linux on this kind of servers, only on
PCs, mostly with RAID simulated by software I am bit lost.
There are a few questions that come to my mind before I am going on
with the installation:
1. - I always heard that was no good to install swap or / (root)
partitions on RAID (hardware or software) because if any time the RAID
fails, you would not be able to boot the box. Since the current
configuration with Windows is having a mirrored stripped 66 Gb disk (4
SCSI disk drives of 33 Gb), I am wondering if it would be a good idea to
install swap and root partitions on the RAID. I still havent checked if
the system has installed a partition of 32 Mb for utilities from Dell.
2.- I have read that I need to upgrade the kernel. The kernel provided
with RedHat 7.3 needs to be upgraded because a problem with the ext3
filesystem.
I was considering recompiling a 2.4.20 kernel from sources but I would
like to have the possibility of booting from a modular kernel, How I
upgrade the kernel? In the updates web page of RedHat, there is only
four rpms for the kernel. I have downloaded
kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x.i386.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.18-24.7.x.i386.rpm.
I just need to do a rpm -Uvh?
the PE4400 has 2 Gb of RAM and two P III Xeon processors. I guess that I
have to recompile with the following options:
- SCSI support. Do I need to specify the controller?
- RAID support?? as far as I have read through I need to use aacraid
driver.
- big memory support.
- multiprocessor.
Anything else?
Sorry for all these naive questions, but I am very new to this server
world.
Many thanks in advance and sorry for my English
Miguel
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2003-02-27 11:49 Installing Linux RedHat 7.3 on a PowerEdge 4400 Shaw, Marco
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