Re: Hardware question (urgent)
From: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>
Subject: Re: Hardware question (urgent)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:07:10 +0100 (CET)
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote:
> > I don't know the german market. But I do know that my distributor
> > have a presence in germany. Maybe you can call them and see if they
> > have a partner who can solve your need.
> Wrote e-mail to a partner of them. Thanks for the hint!
>
> > Boot manager
> > ------------
> > You can use std. sun boot loader or silo to boot solaris.
> > You can use silo to boot linux.
> Is silo the kind of lilo or more the kind of grub, presenting a menu
> to select from without having to press any key?
Yes it is "like" lilo (I have not used grub), and there are no menu.
How do you select from a menu without any key press, is grub mouse based?
>
> > You can use std. sun boot loader to load silo from a linux partition
> > and then boot linux
>
> > Disk space is not usually a problem, though disk slot space is.
> > E.g. Seagate sells 70GB scsi disks, but you can only have six disks in
> > the chassi.
> Well, 4x36GB seems me to be enough at the moment, but it's allways the
> same ...
>
> > In software raid the os uses its own partitions so the should not be
> > any conflickt having both linux and solaris software raid
> For sure, but it would be interesting to have /home partition on RAID
> which could be accessed by both systems for instance ...
Well, it would've been nice. But as things are now I don't think it is
possible. On the other hand, if I frequently wanted to reboot to
another os, I would put /home on another box, as to not to disrupt my users
work.
>
> > I don't know of any raid card that linux-sparc can use.
> > hw raid is os independent, the whole raid is presented as one big disk
> Yes but the offered solution is about 3/4 of the price of the server
> box with twice the diskspace... (The HW raid had "only" 4x18GB.)
>
Well, raid has an overhead. With mirroring you get ~50% of total disk space.
> > Howtos:
> > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO.txt.gz from the
> > doc-linux-text package is a good start. There are references there
> > also.
> >
> > You cat go to http://www.linuxhq.com and search for raid, you will get
> > a list of howto's. I don't know which is best.
> Thanks, I'll check that
>
> Andreas.
...
Regards,
/Karl
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