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Hey guys,.. I am sorry if I am posting in the wrong section but here goes my question. I am trying to build a VMware client machine on my VMware Workstation to use for practice for my RHCE Exams,.. I have done the following.
1. Installed CentOS 5.3 final
2. Installed VMware Workstation and everything is working fine.
3. Installed Guest OS of CentOS 5.3 final to use for Exam Simulation,..
Now to the problem,.. I have 6 partitions in the guest OS as follows,.. from df command and "p"print on fdisk
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
1967952 258484 1607888 14% /
/dev/sda5 1984016 78948 1802656 5% /home
/dev/sda3 1984044 123400 1758232 7% /var
/dev/sda2 3968124 2805144 958152 75% /usr
/dev/sda1 505604 16955 462545 4% /boot
tmpfs 127772 0 127772 0% /dev/shm
"p"print on fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 26.8 GB, 26843545600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3263 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 65 522081 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 66 575 4096575 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 576 830 2048287+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 831 3263 19543072+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 831 1085 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1086 3263 17494753+ 8e Linux LVM
When I delete /dev/sda6 and create new partitions /dev/sda6 /dev/sda7 /dev/sda8 /dev/sda9 it works fine but I cannot get to create a raid 5 partition and mount it. To make matter worse,. when I reboot,.. it goes to kernel panic. I have done everything by the book!! partition type,..write the partition in fdisk mode,.partprobe,.. mkfs,.. all in vain. I end up screwing up my partitioning system then I cannot boot into the OS again. I just have to revert from a previous snapshot always.
Any suggestion will help a lot. Also if anybody has a better idea on how to practice adding partitions, LVM, raid, swap for the RHCE exam please help. I do not have money to take the Redhat official Class. It is very expensive and my work environment is all BillGates!!!
Thanks Guys,.
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