Hey there,

I have a very very neewbie question.
I have 3 servers named above and i would like(have allready done) install CentOS.

does a setup for hosting need centos to be installed for all or only the boot hard drive.

I done the first time for all but then i cannot access the remaining harddrives..

Sorry if this sound very very neewbie...

TNX......

What is the best way for me!!!!

Hi,

did you use the "Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD" for the setup?
Next question in fact that this is the onboard raid controller, AIC 7899W U160 SCSI-Controller.
Are all luns detected and does the setup also recognize the disks ? As one Raid disk or as several disks?

Supported OS:
Windows 2003
Windows NT 4
Windows 2000
Red Hat 7.2
Red Hat 7.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Netware

Do you install into the raid system or on a spare drive?

Well... I'm quite new at this so for what i can tell
is that the HD was allready installed with the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD before me! .

All I did was install CentOS over the existing windows server 2003 version.

All went well and the install was succesfull. But i installed it for all
HD's. This resulted in a complete system of all hd's together as one 400 plus gig's of harddrive space.


I think I it has to do with the initial setup gecause all HD's all now volumes instead of one beeing a RAID disk. Maybe there is the fault..


I'll have to go over the initializing of the disks again and do it over..


please some tips are welcome



tnx

Well, that's probably entirely it

There are two ways to do this

Re-install CentOS, and partition your drive

or

Go into the raid-bios, create two "drives" in there, one for the OS, one for the user data. Then re-install CentOS & setup your partitions & mount points.


I always put LVM on my systems. One Volume Group for the OS, one for the data. In this case the OS is referring to / /boot /tmp and /var. If the data is user-data stored in /home obviously /home is in the data VG instead. I deal with a lot of databases so the database stuff is what goes in the data VG.

Depending on how many discs are in your system, I'd put the OS on a mirrored pair of drives, and the data in a raid 5 across the rest.

You'll probably need to read up on how to setup your raid card. There must be lots of tutorials out there, I just don't know of any.

First Boot with Dell OpenManage Server CD then follow some steps as per it ask like Formating Type,Partition,Disk Allocation,Time,Date,etc.


After that most important part it will ask for the type is OS like
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Linux server 5.2
Linux server 4.5
and So on.

U just have to select OS.
There they will ask u for the installation CD.

Shiv
RHCE 5.0

Is that what they mean by SWAP partition??

No, those are logical 'drives' ie may be made up of 2 or more physical drives.
Swap is a separate partition (or entire drive) set aside for the kernel to use if it runs out of RAM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

Well, I'm getting there (SOON I hope)....
Got a lot to learn for a Windows addict, But linux still seems the best OS for the job.
I am aiming for a small beginning getting some first customers and get my little hosting thing set up. Tnx for the reply's....

Probably will be back here soon I think!!

TNX