Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-14 Thread Jeff Hefner
I've started building a JBOD out of a Supermicro case for expanding the available storage on my home network. So I have a few comments about what I learned so far about using Supermicro as JBODs. Supermicro has several multi bay chassis as part of their current product line but I'm looking to do

Re: [CentOS] Dual or quad fast ethernet NICs (that work with CentOS)

2011-01-01 Thread Jeff Hefner
, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Louis Lagendijk lo...@lagendijk.xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 16:32 -0600, Jeff Hefner wrote: I can vouch for the Sun Quad Fast Ethernet (PCI) cards. Quite a while back a few co-workers and I had split a small lot of them from eBay the broke down to roughly 8

Re: [CentOS] Dual or quad fast ethernet NICs (that work with CentOS)

2010-12-31 Thread Jeff Hefner
I can vouch for the Sun Quad Fast Ethernet (PCI) cards. Quite a while back a few co-workers and I had split a small lot of them from eBay the broke down to roughly 8 or 9 bucks with shipping. Everyone had good luck with whatever they ended up being used for (mostly firewalls). jeff On Fri, Dec

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart from tagged VLAN?

2010-07-09 Thread Jeff Hefner
I've still been keeping this one simmering back burner and trying to figure the workflow for getting a system up and running with minimal user interaction. I do realize the PXE agents don't have any concept of tagged vlans. The thought was more along the lines of having the ability to specify a

[CentOS] Kickstart from tagged VLAN?

2010-07-01 Thread Jeff Hefner
I've searched around but haven't found a definitive answer yet, is it possible to kickstart from a tagged VLAN? I found this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431915 But I can't find out how far the vlan support goes. I haven't found anything about it in any kickstart docs.

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart 8TB partition limit?

2010-03-25 Thread Jeff Hefner
hopefully this helps I have quite a few systems in the same boat. really large volume formated as xfs for storing backup data. Here is a simplified snippet from my kickstart files. part pv.2 --noformat --ondisk=sdb --size=1 --grow volgroup lg_largevol --pesize=32768 pv.2 %packages kmod-xfs

Re: [CentOS] [OT?] recommendation for simple wiki S/W to run on centos 5.4?

2010-02-24 Thread Jeff Hefner
It is installable via yum is you use EPEL: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch.rpm Change the arch in the URL if using x86_64. For more info about EPEL. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Jef On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Bob McConnell