Re: Install Resolution

2007-07-27 Thread John Hearns
Jon Peatfield wrote: On the boxes we have with larger raid setups, we are lucky enough that they can all chop up the raidset into 2TB chunks which get presented to the OS as seperate disks, which we can then join back together with LVM... Jon, I absolutely back up what you say. Presenting

Upgrade from SL 4.4 to SL 5

2007-07-27 Thread Harold Norris
Hi, I have enjoyed working with SL 4.4, but some of the programs I wanted to run needed upgraded programs and files. After compiling numerous libraries and programs, I finally came to the realization that it would be a lot easier to upgrade to SL 5. The upgrade from your DVD.iso went well,

Recovering an SL5 system after Sophos Antivirus crash

2007-07-27 Thread Zhi-Wei Lu
Hi, I was playing with Sophos Antivirus for Linux (not really necessary in my opinion, but ...) for an SL 5.0 system, the antivirus program crashed the system. I managed to remove the Sophos Antivirus software using the install DVD. However, the system crashes very early on in the

External (USB) DVD burner that works with SL?

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Hannon
Hi, folks. We're in the market for an external DVD writer with a USB interface that works with Scientific Linux. This could be SL 3, 4, or 5. The format doesn't much matter either, i.e., +R, -R, +RW, -RW. Some of the guys here just want to dump some data. If you have any recommendations