Ask him if he has a hardware RAID card : )
If not, we can walk him through the software RAID method.
If he has a 64-bit server, he can use the x86_64 centos ISO's, and if he
doesn't he will get a screen message saying "this machine does not support
long mode" or something very similar. In which case he can put the 32-bit
Centos ISO's on there.
Once we know if he has hardware RAID SCSI card or not, we can walk him
through the disk setup, I will dig up the right FAQ for this and send it,
along with my own notes...
-karl
> On 7/20/06, Karl R. Balsmeier <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is he trying to establish a hardware-based RAID 10 on his Dell Poweredge
>> server? That looked like part of what he wanted to do. If so, and he
>> is
>> using 4 disks, take two of them and create RAID 1, and do the same with
>> the other 2, then when those are created, choose new RAID, and select
>> raid
>> 0, select both RAID 1's as members, and once done, he will have RAID 10.
>>
>> That's how we did it on our existing Poweredge servers, -we also are
>> able
>> to monitor them using Nagios and a custom script we wrote that works
>> with
>> the AFACLI tool, which I can send you the download info for.
>>
>> But let me know, maybe I read his post slightly wrong in spanish...
> Karl I am not good at raid, i have never worked with it nor with x64
> servers so, i will translate his email here for you.
>
> " I have Dell POwer Edge 2800 server,
> First, Is it possible to install centos and wich version?
> x86_64?
> Well talking about installing, i can install but I need to enable RAiD
> of the disk in raid 10.
> how can i do to make CENTOS recognize me the four disk in raid 10...?
> thanks in advance ... Roberto"
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