Hi, On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Rafael Griman wrote:
Well, I had to install RH 6.1 yesterday on a Compaq Proliant with 4 x 18.2 GB UW SCSI disks, 2 x Xeon and 1GB RAM (one hell of a machine). Had to setup RAID 5 and SAMBA, til here everybody might think is normal. Well, what astonished me is that in RH's 6.1 graphical installation you can automatically partition a disk and setup RAID (via software). This REALLY eases things up: you don't have to fuss around editing files and swearing in every language you know.
The thing is: can SuSE do this? I'm not going to change over to RH, obviously. Just wondered if SuSE had this ease or, if it doesn't, if it's thinking of something like that for a near future.
No, unfortunately not yet. However, you can set up LVM and Journaling File systems with YaST1. IMHO software based RAID5 is a kludge anyway. A serious server should have hardware RAID with logical volumes on top of it. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/