From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hardware question (urgent) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:07:10 +0100 (CET)
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: > > I don't know the german market. But I do know that my distributor > > have a presence in germany. Maybe you can call them and see if they > > have a partner who can solve your need. > Wrote e-mail to a partner of them. Thanks for the hint! > > > Boot manager > > ------------ > > You can use std. sun boot loader or silo to boot solaris. > > You can use silo to boot linux. > Is silo the kind of lilo or more the kind of grub, presenting a menu > to select from without having to press any key? Yes it is "like" lilo (I have not used grub), and there are no menu. How do you select from a menu without any key press, is grub mouse based? > > > You can use std. sun boot loader to load silo from a linux partition > > and then boot linux > > > Disk space is not usually a problem, though disk slot space is. > > E.g. Seagate sells 70GB scsi disks, but you can only have six disks in > > the chassi. > Well, 4x36GB seems me to be enough at the moment, but it's allways the > same ... > > > In software raid the os uses its own partitions so the should not be > > any conflickt having both linux and solaris software raid > For sure, but it would be interesting to have /home partition on RAID > which could be accessed by both systems for instance ... Well, it would've been nice. But as things are now I don't think it is possible. On the other hand, if I frequently wanted to reboot to another os, I would put /home on another box, as to not to disrupt my users work. > > > I don't know of any raid card that linux-sparc can use. > > hw raid is os independent, the whole raid is presented as one big disk > Yes but the offered solution is about 3/4 of the price of the server > box with twice the diskspace... (The HW raid had "only" 4x18GB.) > Well, raid has an overhead. With mirroring you get ~50% of total disk space. > > Howtos: > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO.txt.gz from the > > doc-linux-text package is a good start. There are references there > > also. > > > > You cat go to http://www.linuxhq.com and search for raid, you will get > > a list of howto's. I don't know which is best. > Thanks, I'll check that > > Andreas. ... Regards, /Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57 Networks S-742 94 Östhammar +46 70 511 97 84 Computers Sweden Consulting -----------------------------------------------------------------------
