Re: Bunch of questions

["Huston" <shuston@ohiohills.com>]

thanks for the information, but I had thought this is what the debian sparc 
list was for....  Sorry if I was mislead somewhere.  I think the debian user 
list sent me here.  Will my windows boxes be able to read these other 
partition types?  I have four hard drives.  I wanted two to raid the OS on 
and two to act normally.  I am taking it that my E250 probably doesn't have 
a hardware raid.  I was just wanting to learn some basics as I am new to 
sparc and debian so thanks for the information and I will get to reading. 
If you have any suggestions, I am open to them also.  Thanks again

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin" <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>
To: "Huston" <shuston@ohiohills.com>
Cc: "Debian Sparc" <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: Bunch of questions


> > I am in need of some help.  I have an E250 sun server.  What I want to
> > do......I want to run 2 hard drives in raid for my OS.  and 2 hard drives
> > normally with a fat32 partition for file storage.  I also want my fat32
> > drives to be viewable from other machines...I am totally new to Debian, 
> > and
> > I am having problems with these steps.  First: the raid...how do I set it
> > up?
> Start by looking at this document:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
>
> >  Is there a good site to show step by step.
> If the HOWTO isn't good enough, try googling.
>
> >  Second: the fat32....is it
> > possible to format these two other drives as fat32 with linux?
> Yes, although I suspect this isn't what you want to do.  The way
> software RAID works on Linux is that it will set up the two disks to
> behave as if they were one.  You then create a filesystem on that one
> 'virtual disk'.
>
> Unless you have an extreemly good reason I'd advise against using fat32
> - it's been obsolete for years.  Consider ext3 or reiserfs3 instead.
>
> >  Third:
> > making it network viewable to my other machines...
> There are many ways of doing this depending on what protocols these
> machines talk.
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
> depending on exactly what you want to achieve, coda, intermezzo, davfs,
> LUFS:ftpfs and sshfs might also be worth a look.
>
> > Is there certain packages I need to install?
> Yes.  Which ones depend on what you are trying to do.
>
> >  I am searching for this information also.  Red hat was
> > pretty automatic and it would read my ntfs partitions on my network
> > machines.  I read that debian would not do this.
> Depends on the version and how it's set up.  RH and Debian are both
> built from (pretty much) the same software.
>
> >  I really would appreciate
> > all help.  Thanks very much in advance.
> Given that none of this is specific to SPARC machines can I suggest you
> post to a more appropriate mailing list - perhaps debian-user.  You will
> get a better response.
>
> HTH
>
> Sweet Dreams,
> - Martin
>
> --
> Martin
> inkubus@interalpha.co.uk
> "Seasons change, things come to pass"