On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:19:41PM +0300, Alex Stamatis wrote: > Hello BSD'S :) > > I want to rent a box in 1und1.de. > I wanted to ask the following questions. > > It has software raid. Do you think I might have a compartability problem > with that ?
In the sense that it's the Linux kernel doing this, and you won't be using a Linux kernel, I'd say you definitely are going to have problems. However, using software RAID via RAIDframe on OpenBSD works fine, once it's setup (it does tend to crash quite a bit before that time, though; be careful, and also take a good look at the altroot mechanism described in afterboot(8) - I have at least one box with altusr and such). However, if you know what to do or once you have found out through trial and error what the settings are supposed to be, RAIDframe works very well. It will require a custom kernel, though. See raid(4). > Also has anyone tried from misc to install via serial console an OpenBSD in > this company ? This is my main concern ... > I assume that the network card that the rack has inside will play without > compartability problems... Right ? See the thread ending (more or less) with http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=114739329602183&w=2 for details. > These questions might sound stupid but i am asking because the ral pickle is > that if you buy a box in this company you need to spend an ammount of money > and it has at least 1 year contract so I need to be most assured that at > least even if the raid doesnt play and I use 2 hdds instead of raid that the > OS will run fine. Apparently, it does. Even if it's not exactly supported. Joachim
