Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-10-01 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: down. Or at least, this is my interpretation of why every time I upgrade my root-RAID Mandrake-based server, I have to remember to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3#raid -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-10-01 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This was my first guess as well, but the system still wouldn't come up after I built my own initrd with raid1 and raid5 support. I added aliases for md-personality-3 and md-personality-4 to /etc/modules.conf, but no luck. Every array would still fail to

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically I've got a ASUS A7V133 RAID m/b with 1G ram, althon 1500XP and two 40G 7200rpm disks. One disk on the main controller, the other on the onboard promise controller. Booted mandrake 9.0 disk #1, partitioned as follows:

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Wes Kurdziolek
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:43, Bruno Prior wrote: Basically I've got a ASUS A7V133 RAID m/b with 1G ram, althon 1500XP and two 40G 7200rpm disks. One disk on the main controller, the other on the onboard promise controller. Booted mandrake 9.0 disk #1, partitioned as follows:

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Wes Kurdziolek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:43, Bruno Prior wrote: Basically I've got a ASUS A7V133 RAID m/b with 1G ram, althon 1500XP and two 40G 7200rpm disks. One disk on the main controller, the other on the onboard promise controller. Booted

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Bruno Prior
Thomas Backlund wrote: Funny, I have no problem what so ever with the soft raid, and I have 3 systems set up this way, 2 with scsi disks, and one with ide disks... my setup: RAID -1 /dev/md0 - /boot (sda1,sdb1 or hda1,hdc1) /dev/md1 - / (sda6,sdb6 or hda6,hdc6)

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Bruno Prior
Wes Kurdziolek wrote: When I did an MDK 9.0 install that resembled this (ext3 /boot, RAID-0 /, /usr, /usr/local, /var/, and /tmp -- yes, performance is critical), the system failed to come up after rebooting b/c the raid0 module was not included in the initrd and/or not loaded by the

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Wes Kurdziolek
That's not very helpful if the damn thing won't come up even in single user mode. ;) I could use the rescue mode from the CD, but I'd rather everything work right w/o having to do that. On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 04:15, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Wes Kurdziolek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun,

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Wes Kurdziolek
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 05:46, Bruno Prior wrote: This was my first guess as well, but the system still wouldn't come up after I built my own initrd with raid1 and raid5 support. I added aliases for md-personality-3 and md-personality-4 to /etc/modules.conf, but no luck. Every array would

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-30 Thread Pixel
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] One thought. Was yours a completely fresh install? Mine was an install over the top of 9.0 RC1, and I was trying in the first instance to retain the old arrays. The errata indicates that this is what goes wrong - diskdrake identifies the old

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-29 Thread Bruno Prior
Basically I've got a ASUS A7V133 RAID m/b with 1G ram, althon 1500XP and two 40G 7200rpm disks. One disk on the main controller, the other on the onboard promise controller. Booted mandrake 9.0 disk #1, partitioned as follows: /dev/hda1256M-/boot [ext2] /dev/hda2

[Cooker] Install of 9.0

2002-09-26 Thread Linux Autrement
I've just spent a happy morning installing a machine. I wanted so see if all would go well with old kit. The machine is an HP NetServer 5/100 LC. with 133 Pentium, 96 Mb RAM, one 1.05 Gb and three 2.1 Gb SCSI discs, floppy but no CD. Using an NFS install with sda1 as boot sda2 as swap and all the

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0

2002-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Linux Autrement [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: done folks at Mandrake. But why is it not shouted load and clear that Mandrake since at least 8.2 can install straight onto a RAID? Before 9.0, detecting current RAID was not supported so it was not so good. Now it's even better, yep. --

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-26 Thread Stephen Pickering
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Linux Autrement [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: done folks at Mandrake. But why is it not shouted load and clear that Mandrake since at least 8.2 can install straight onto a RAID? Before 9.0, detecting current RAID was not supported so it was not so good.

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Stephen Pickering wrote: Before 9.0, detecting current RAID was not supported so it was not so good. Now it's even better, yep. Any tips on how to install using raid ? I tried this morning with no sucess, so I went back to non raid. Have you

Re: [Cooker] Install of 9.0 - raid ?

2002-09-26 Thread Svetoslav Slavtchev
Basically I've got a ASUS A7V133 RAID m/b with 1G ram, althon 1500XP and two 40G 7200rpm disks. One disk on the main controller, the other on the onboard promise controller. Booted mandrake 9.0 disk #1, partitioned as follows: /dev/hda1256M-/boot [ext2] /dev/hda224G

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please take the Reply-To: out of your e-mail client, it is screwing things up. Talking about that, please CUT the unnecessary parts of the messages you answer to.. thanks! -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD
On Monday 29 July 2002 07:19 am, Pixel wrote: David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has a spelling error: secutiry=n should be seceurity-n fixed I thought is was 'security' (no second 'e') V.

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread David Eastcott
On Monday 29 July 2002 10:52 pm, you wrote: On Monday 29 July 2002 07:19 am, Pixel wrote: David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has a spelling error: secutiry=n should be seceurity-n fixed I thought

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread Pixel
David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has a spelling error: secutiry=n should be seceurity-n fixed

[Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott
Noticed a few things, 1. When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has a spelling error: secutiry=n should be seceurity-n 2. GUI install; while formatting partitions, the information box is blank until the end when flashes up the last partion formatted, then

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott
Even I can not spell correctly, a. On Saturday 27 July 2002 10:53 am, David Eastcott wrote: Noticed a few things, 1. When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has a spelling error: secutiry=n should be seceurity-n should be security=n Dave

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread Jure Repinc
On Saturday 27 July 2002 18:53, David Eastcott wrote: 4. On the main diag log for Printer Installation: a) the text: ...available for Star Office/OpenOffice.org should may be?? have the .org removed?? As far as I know OpenOffice.org is the official name for the offcie suite so .org must be

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott
On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:12 am, David Walser wrote: --- David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] 6. When the option Clean tmp is selected in the Bootloader dialog, an fstab entry gets created which mounts the tmpfs as /tmp. Is there a reason for this? Why object to this?

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Walser
Please take the Reply-To: out of your e-mail client, it is screwing things up. --- David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:12 am, David Walser wrote: --- David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] 6. When the option Clean tmp is selected in the

Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott
On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:31 am, you wrote: David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. Old whine - what are the chances of having the selected services dumped to the auto_inst.cfg file? i'll try to do it. Thanks Dave