DEC ALPHA

[Ronald Maggio]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darin Perusich" <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA


> your first scsi disk, sda should be large enough for /. i have a redhat
> 7.1 imap email server setup and the / filesystem is only using 130mb. if
> you break everthing up efficiently that should be plenty.
>
> here's what i would do.
>
> sda=528mb / (root filesystem, not to much should go here)
> sdb=4.3gig /usr (where all the apps will go)
> sdc=1.010gig /var (gives you plenty of space for logs)
> sdd=426mb <swap> (nice big swap space)

Thats fine since the ram is only 88mb

> sde=426mb /home (should? be plenty of room for home dirs)

It should be, I'm only using this system for dialup, but later on as a
lan server. What do you think? Big enough?
> <----------------------------------snip-------------------------------->

Ok but where should I put boot? and also should I make a 10mb dos
partition on sda to install MILO on in order to boot the (system) with doing
this
it would point to boot and load Linux?

> to me this would be a reasonable setup for a system. it's flexable
> enough to allow for the addition scsi storage (disk, cd, tape). in the
> event of a drive failure you would only lose that filesystem, you could
> then boot into rescue mode, off a cdrom or floppy and recover important
> files.
>
> as for you being able to access the drives it will be transparent to the
> user, the drives will be mounted on the appropriate directory.
>
> > All well and good to set the (Unknown)s to Linux native in diskdruid.
> > My only problem is to figure out what to put where! I have the following
> > disks to use for this system. sda=528mb, sdb=4.3gig, sdc=1.010gig,
sdd=426mb
> > and sde=426mb.
> > sda is in desktop not drive tower. All pinned in order 0 through 4 and
> > terminated.
> > Now sda is way to small to put / but large enough for boot, but as Bob
Meyer
> > tolled
> > me that I should just go ahead and install everything on the 4.3gig
drive
> > sdb=scsi 1.
> > So if I did it that way how will I be able to access the other drives in
> > order to use them?
> > ie: Install programs & storage? Raid software? How?
> >
> > >setting up the drives is personal preference, there are really no right
or
> > wrong ways to setup
> > > filesystems, other they one big filesystem. with that said you should
at
> > > least setup /, /usr, /var, and swap, anything else is debatable.
> > > if diskdruid and/or fdisk DO NOT see all your drives you most likely
> > > have a termination problem, or a bad drive. when you boot up the
machine
> > > get into the bios/eeprom what ever you want to call it. there should
be
> > > a section where you can view the hardware, if you're using the DEC
> > > console type disk to probe the disk drives, or test to probe all
> > > hardware. any termination issues should come up here.
> >
> > Did that and all showed up.
> >
> >
> >
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>
> >
> > > > OK the GUI did not take care of this and I had to use fdisk to set
BSD
> > > > disklables. What should I name the partition type? The BSD disklable
> > program
> > > > uses a default partition type of (Unknown) I set the letter of each
> > drive to
> > > > (a) and it states in the installation guide "To provide the initial
> > > > unallocated space, you will need to start the partitions at cylinder
2.
> > If
> > > > you do a workstation or server class installation" I'm installing a
> > > > workstation class system.
> > >
> > > fstab(5) is the filesystem table file, it contains info on how to
mount
> > > filesytems.
> > >
> > > > What is (fstab)?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Darin Perusich
> > > Unix Systems Administrator
> > > Cognigen Corp.
> > > darinper at cognigencorp.com

Darin thanks for all your help:)

Ron