Installing RH on a SCSI drive server

[Christopher Wagner]

My recommendation is to install it on the Poweredge server..  You should
experience absolutely no problems with SCSI.  The installer should
automagically load the necessary modules and the operating system will
probably boot up with the right modules as well.

As far as dual-booting with XP, partitioning the drive with Partition Magic
will allow you to resize the drive non-destructively.  Another drive would
probably be more preferable, however, so you won't have to worry about
cylinder boundaries and whatnot..  I believe (but I'm not 100% certain) Grub
and Lilo now correctly support dual-booting between NTish OSes (like 2000 &
XP) and Linux.  Will someone please correct me if I'm wrong.  I haven't
dual-booted between the NTish OSes and Linux other than Lycoris.   I
installed Lycoris on my desktop at work and it autoconfigured it's boot
loader to dual-boot between 2000 and Lycoris just fine.

Hope this helps!

- Christopher Wagner
chrisw at pacaids.com

Packaging Aids Corporation - Information Systems
P.O. Box 9144
San Rafael, CA 94912-9144
http://www.pacaids.com/
(415) 454-4868 x116
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wyvern.Restaurants at ultra.sonic.net
[mailto:Wyvern.Restaurants at ultra.sonic.net]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:55 PM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Installing RH on a SCSI drive server


I have three choices for installing RH 7:

1. On my 40Gb drive that holds XP - has a 2.2GHz processor
2. On a separate drive on the XP machine
3. On our obsolete Dell PowerEdge 2300 server which has two SCSI hard drives

Problems:
1. The XP is on a FAT32 but I don't know how to repartition the disk without
losing the stuff already there.
2. My preference; I assume Windoze demands to be on the primary drive.  How
do I alter the boot floppy to tell it to use hd1
3. This would be neat, because I could then work with a server
configuration; are there problems with the SCSI drives?

Further problem - I can't come to the installfest because I'm not physically
able to move the machines.  
I can figure out the installation itself (no-brainer) it's the XP  critter
that has me stumped.

If someone wants to e-mail me privately so we don't take up list space on
newbie stuff, that would be ok.  

Catherine de la Cruz
Wyvern Restaurants Inc
private e-mail  cdlcruz at sonic.net







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