Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness

2010-03-24 Thread Brent L. Bates
I've been searching Google for answers and can't find any, so I decided to check here. I'm trying to do a clean install of SL 5.4. I'm booting from an SL 5.4 x86_64 DVD. When I get to the point of custom partitioning my drives, Anaconda makes a mess of things. I have 4 drives and I

Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Stodola
Brent L. Bates wrote: I've been searching Google for answers and can't find any, so I decided to check here. I'm trying to do a clean install of SL 5.4. I'm booting from an SL 5.4 x86_64 DVD. When I get to the point of custom partitioning my drives, Anaconda makes a mess of things.

Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness

2010-03-24 Thread Troy Dawson
Brent L. Bates wrote: I've been searching Google for answers and can't find any, so I decided to check here. I'm trying to do a clean install of SL 5.4. I'm booting from an SL 5.4 x86_64 DVD. When I get to the point of custom partitioning my drives, Anaconda makes a mess of things.

Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness

2010-03-24 Thread Eve V. E. Kovacs
And when you are doing your custom layout, select RAID rather than New in the menu for making partitions. The RAID option allows you to setup partitions on different disks and then combine them into a software raid. You can select the RAID type, and which partitions go into each RAID device. I

Re: Tips on switching to Oracle Unbreakable Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Chris, I'm running Oracle App Server on my SL boxes. I started out with RedHat, then decided I didn't really get anything out of RetHat support so go with SL. Now I'm thinking for a couple hundred bucks a year I will go with the minimal support level of Oracle Unbreakable Linux. That

RE: Tips on switching to Oracle Unbreakable Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Howard, Chris
--- original message -- I'm confused as to what you're asking. If you'd like to pay someone for supporting your Linux distribution, then maybe SL have a donation system? I honestly don't understand what criteria you're trying to meet, are you just more comfortable with paying for something