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?
> 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 ... > 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.) > 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.