Thanks again, Mark. The University does have some PXEboot install tools. I will try those. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:17 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > Thanks, Mark. > > > > I will look for the 6.5 download. > > Yeah, or run yum update. > > > > Don't I have to run the parted -a opt on a RedHat system? > > Is parted available from the installation DVD? > > > I'm not sure. We run mostly CentOS at work, so the same as RHEL, and it's > available when we're doing our PXEboot installs. > > mark > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:58 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > >> > I have a Dell PowerEdge T120 with 12 4Tb disks. I want to use the > >> first > >> > disk as the system disk and the remaining 11 as a raid 5. > >> > > >> > I have the first disk set up as a raid 0. I installed RedHat 6.4 > >> server > >> > software on the first disk. I set up the Dell to use a uefi boot > >> instead > >> > of bios. However, I cannot boot up the new system as the bios does > >> not > >> > support the size of the system disk. > >> > >> First, update it to 6.5. Like, yesterday. 6.4 will contain things like > >> the > >> heartbleed bug, etc. > >> > > >> > I gather I should set up gpt partitioning instead of the default mbr > >> on > >> > the first disk. > >> > > >> > How do I do this? > >> > >> You can either use the gui gparted, or the user hostile parted. Note > >> that > >> if you do this, you'll probably have to reinstall - is that ok? > >> > >> One other option would be to partition disk 0, say, into two 2GB > >> partitions, and RAID 1 them. Alternatively, what we're doing here for > >> drives 1TB and over is to make a root partition of 500GB, and the rest > >> as > >> another partition. > >> > >> $ parted -a opt > >> > mklabel gpt > >> > mkpart pri (don't be confused - when they say "name, they mean > >> primary or extended....) > >> >> start: 0.0GB (will make sure it's actually aligned) > >> >> end: 100% > >> > q > >> will make you one big drive. > >> > >> mark > >> > >> -- > >> redhat-list mailing list > >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > >> > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
