[opensuse] New install questions
Excuse my noviceness but i just got a HP Pavilion a6313w with a 640gig drive or so it was billed on the box as a 640gig drive. When i go to install 10.3, yast says it is 2 drives of 320gig. I take the cover off and it is in fact 2 320gig drives. My question is what is everybody doing in this situation? Raid 1 (i don't even know if this thing can do raid) or 1 drive is mounted as root with a swap and the other is mounted as /home? I would think that if 1 drive is mounted as "/" with the swap on it, there is alot of wasted space (does / need 320gigs). If raid 1, could someone post a doc link as to how to do software raid in linux. I also have a question about the 15 in 1 reader: does 10.3 find and work with card readers? Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Excuse my noviceness but i just got a HP Pavilion a6313w with a 640gig drive or so it was billed on the box as a 640gig drive. When i go to install 10.3, yast says it is 2 drives of 320gig. I take the cover off and it is in fact 2 320gig drives. My question is what is everybody doing in this situation? Raid 1 (i don't even know if this thing can do raid) or 1 drive is mounted as root with a swap and the other is mounted as /home? I would think that if 1 drive is mounted as "/" with the swap on it, there is alot of wasted space (does / need 320gigs). If raid 1, could someone post a doc link as to how to do software raid in linux. You will get a lot of opinions here on this point. The nice thing about opinions are we all have one. I would go with a raid 1, partition it with swap, / and /home, and since you have space, maybe a backup
On 05/11/2008 08:32 AM, Chris Arnold wrote: partition for versioned backups (only if needed). If you go into the expert mode during install, it is quite easy to install to software raid 1. Caveats, make sure Grub is installed to MBR of the BIOS boot disk. Other than that, it is quite straight forward. To be able to boot from either disk, look for RAID+GRUB.html howto.
I also have a question about the 15 in 1 reader: does 10.3 find and work with card readers?
Yes, quite well. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Chris Arnold wrote:
Excuse my noviceness but i just got a HP Pavilion a6313w with a 640gig drive or so it was billed on the box as a 640gig drive. When i go to install 10.3, yast says it is 2 drives of 320gig. I take the cover off and it is in fact 2 320gig drives. My question is what is everybody doing in this situation? Raid 1 (i don't even know if this thing can do raid) or 1 drive is mounted as root with a swap and the other is mounted as /home? I would think that if 1 drive is mounted as "/" with the swap on it, there is alot of wasted space (does / need 320gigs). If raid 1, could someone post a doc link as to how to do software raid in linux.
Given that this is a desktop PC, and assuming you don't need 640Gb space, I would certainly opt for RAID1. For setting it up, just use YaST. There is an issue in 10.3 with lilo and RAID1, but it might be fine with GRUB, I don't know. It's easily fixed, but it means creating the RAID setup _before_ you install. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
Chris Arnold wrote:
Excuse my noviceness but i just got a HP Pavilion a6313w with a 640gig drive or so it was billed on the box as a 640gig drive. When i go to install 10.3, yast says it is 2 drives of 320gig. I take the cover off and it is in fact 2 320gig drives. My question is what is everybody doing in this situation? Raid 1 (i don't even know if this thing can do raid) or 1 drive is mounted as root with a swap and the other is mounted as /home? I would think that if 1 drive is mounted as "/" with the swap on it, there is alot of wasted space (does / need 320gigs). If raid 1, could someone post a doc link as to how to do software raid in linux.
Given that this is a desktop PC, and assuming you don't need 640Gb space, I would certainly opt for RAID1. For setting it up, just use YaST. There is an issue in 10.3 with lilo and RAID1, but it might be fine with GRUB, I don't know. It's easily fixed, but it means creating the RAID setup _before_ you install.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
I vote for the 320G RAID1 as well. My option for partitions would be "/ 30G" "/boot 110M (that's meg), "swap 1G", and the remainder as "/home". During install, creating the RAID1 array is fairly straight forward. Go into Yast partitioner, delete all parts of its first guess, create a primary partition on each 320G drive, choose "Do Not Format" -- and -- in the drop down, select linux Raid as the partition type. Then choose RAID and add the two drives to it (sda, sdb). Finally, just partition the array as usual with /, /boot, /home and swap as usual. That's it, the install will continue from that point on using the "raid" partition of md0, md1, etc.. instead of sda1, sda2, etc... If the grub installer does its "flaky thing" and the system won't boot, get to command prompt by any way you can and then do "grub-install /dev/sda" and you should be fine. Also, check your bios to make sure the disks are set a bootable. IIRC, that is all there is to it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/05/12 01:38 (GMT-0400) David C. Rankin apparently typed:
My option for partitions would be "/ 30G" "/boot 110M (that's meg), "swap 1G", and the remainder as "/home".
/boot 200M (plenty room for alt. kernels, incl. installation kernels & initrds) /swap ramsize to ramsize X 2, depending on actual ramsize /tmp (optional; smallish, up to size of a DVD iso) / 4G to 20G (current dist version; of my 20+ machines, largest is 7G, typical 5G) / 4G to 20G (next dist version) / 4G to 20G (optional; some other dist, or Factory, or backup) /usr/local (optional; apps applicable regardless which part. is /; size as req.) /home (up to balance of available space) -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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