Greetings,
I have a system which is essentially a network attached storage server.
It has FreeNAS 8.2.0 running on it from a USB flash drive, and
approximately 12 Tb of RAIDed storage across 9 hard drives. These drives
are connected to two (2) IBM M1015 SAS host adapters. (Forgive me, I'm
still new to network storage and didn't understand I can use an SAS
expander in combination with the SAS HBAs until yesterday.)
There is a 10th hard drive which is an SSD drive and which is not
connected to anything right now -- not to the SAS HBAs and not to the
SuperMicro motherboard's SATA ports.
I want to connect this SSD drive to the box and then use Cobbler to
install Fedora 17 specifically to the SSD. The Fedora installation will
become a virtual machine host and will run a bunch of guests that do
various things. In fact I want to turn FreeNAS into a vm.
My question is, do I need to disconnect all the NAS hard drives in order
to make certain that anaconda won't decide to format and use a storage
drive instead of the SSD? I would rather not risk the data that is on
those storage drives. Or is there a kickstart option to show me a list
of the enumerated hard drives and let me pick the one for the Fedora 17
install?
If I plug the SSD into the motherboard's SATA connector, will that
automatically be assigned /dev/sda if no other SATA ports on the
motherboard are in use? What if I plug in an SAS host adapter line instead?
Thanks for your thoughts
Bob Cochran
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