Hy there! first of all, forgive my english, i read a lot better then write!! Oh great hall of linux geeks, my question is the following : I´ll need to upgrade my production network server (samba + mysql) hd´s, with the following scenario : i actually have 4 20 Gig disks, 2 of then into an raid1 (software) and another two for backups pourpouses, but my poor raid is actualy 97% full..... and if our dear shoes designers save another 200 megs files, i´ll probably will have my face into a dart target... no problems into transfering data, partitioning, building raid valumes, blablabal, BUT I CAN´T BOOT! please, i´m completly newby with boot loaders over linux machines, i´ve been searching discussion lists like these, googling a lot ever the last week, but everywhere where someone tell woh to make it, theres a lack of information exacly where they say how to transfer the boot, and time is going short! P.S : not shure about wich boot loader actualy using.. LILO or GRUB, both are installed, and can´t restart server over next 3 weeks! any help, even a link, would be very welcome. Joao Marka
Joao: You did not mention what distribution and version you have. without this info it's a bit hard for us to describe what tools to use... Jerry On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 13:46, Joao - Calcados Jacob S/A wrote:
Hy there! first of all, forgive my english, i read a lot better then write!!
Oh great hall of linux geeks, my question is the following :
I´ll need to upgrade my production network server (samba + mysql) hd´s, with the following scenario :
i actually have 4 20 Gig disks, 2 of then into an raid1 (software) and another two for backups pourpouses, but my poor raid is actualy 97% full..... and if our dear shoes designers save another 200 megs files, i´ll probably will have my face into a dart target...
no problems into transfering data, partitioning, building raid valumes, blablabal,
BUT I CAN´T BOOT! please, i´m completly newby with boot loaders over linux machines, i´ve been searching discussion lists like these, googling a lot ever the last week, but everywhere where someone tell woh to make it, theres a lack of information exacly where they say how to transfer the boot, and time is going short!
P.S : not shure about wich boot loader actualy using.. LILO or GRUB, both are installed, and can´t restart server over next 3 weeks!
any help, even a link, would be very welcome.
Joao Marka
suse 8.1 (acl support kernel) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome R. Westrick" <jerry@Westrick.com> To: "Suse Users" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] primary HD upgrade with raid
Joao:
You did not mention what distribution and version you have. without this info it's a bit hard for us to describe what tools to use...
Jerry
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 13:46, Joao - Calcados Jacob S/A wrote:
Hy there! first of all, forgive my english, i read a lot better then write!!
Oh great hall of linux geeks, my question is the following :
I´ll need to upgrade my production network server (samba + mysql) hd´s, with the following scenario :
i actually have 4 20 Gig disks, 2 of then into an raid1 (software) and another two for backups pourpouses, but my poor raid is actualy 97% full..... and if our dear shoes designers save another 200 megs files, i´ll probably will have my face into a dart target...
no problems into transfering data, partitioning, building raid valumes, blablabal,
BUT I CAN´T BOOT! please, i´m completly newby with boot loaders over linux machines, i´ve been searching discussion lists like these, googling a lot ever the last week, but everywhere where someone tell woh to make it, theres a lack of information exacly where they say how to transfer the boot, and time is going short!
P.S : not shure about wich boot loader actualy using.. LILO or GRUB, both are installed, and can´t restart server over next 3 weeks!
any help, even a link, would be very welcome.
Joao Marka
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