From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez=20Casta=F1os?= Subject: Installing Linux RedHat 7.3 on a PowerEdge 4400 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:57 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E5DF601.CC4125BF@tid.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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