Greg, I was able to get Fedora 7 on the V3-M2A690G (M2A-VM) hardware build using the i386-Instal-DVD. I set the BIOS=AHCI mode, and the Fedora installer correctly noticed this and added the appropriate AHCI drivers.
The install used LVM, so my setup is: /dev/sda1 -- /boot /dev/sda5 -- LVM2 (contains / and swap) I able able to get Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL up and running. The levels are different than the ones from Debian: Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.2 PostgreSQL 8.2.7 The PostgreSQL was not part of the standard Fedora install, so I used yum to install and confirm as follows (which I modified from this version here: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/install_postgresql.htm) yum -y install postgresql postgresql-server php-pgsql # /sbin/chkconfig postgresql on # /sbin/service postgresql initdb # /sbin/service postgresql start # su - postgres $ psql template1 psql# create user web_user; psql# create database web_db owner web_user; psql$ \q $ vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg-hba.conf (changed line "local all all ident sameuser" to "local all all trust") $ exit # /sbin/service postgresql restart # psql -U web_user web_db web_db ==> So, I think the hardware platform fits both purposes (Fedora 7 and Debian), but making this into a dual boot configuration will be complicated, given that Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL are different levels on each. It is possible that the release levels are compatible enough that it doesn't matter, and it might be possible to find specific levels of each to install under both Fedora 7 and Debian. Perhaps work with Tarun to see if he needs specific features or capabilities of anything in particular. I can put a dual-boot system together, but it might mean that each stack is completely different, boot Fedora/Apache 2.2.4/PHP 5.2.2/PostgreSQL 8.2.7 seleting one choice, and Debian/Apache2.2.3/PHP 5.2.0/PostgreSQL 7.4 with the second choice on a "grub" menu. To pull this off, I envision carving the lun as follows: /dev/sda1 --- /boot (Fedora) /dev/sda2 --- /boot (Debian) /dev/sda5 --- LVM2 (contains /(Fedora) /(Debian) swap /common) you could have several "/common" directories such as /var/www/html for your GUI, and these would be shared whether you boot Fedora or Debian. Next steps: It appears that combining LVM2 and RAID-1 might not be as difficult as I thought. Here are tutorials for how to do this for Fedora and Debian. http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-lvm-on-top-of-software-raid1-rhel-fedora http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-raid1-on-a-running-lvm-system-debian-etch In this mode: /dev/md0 --- would be /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (Fedora /boot) /dev/md1 -- would be /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 (Debian /boot) /dev/md2 -- would be /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5 (Shared LVM2) It appears that both Fedora and Debian support "dmraid" driver. -- Tony
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