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
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Martin
inkubus@interalpha.co.uk
"Seasons change, things come to pass"
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