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Subject : Re: LUG: Call 822858: trying to install linux

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@pams.ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:25:32 -0500

Dale,

I'm going to send this email over to NCSU's Linux User Group. There's
some folks on that mailing list with quite a lot of experience that will
be glad to help. You can find about about the group and its mailing
lists by visiting http://lug.ncsu.edu

These folks will probably recommend either Fedora Core or Ubuntu. Both
of which are fine distributions. The problems we will face are dealing
with NTFS and your SATA RAID. NTFS is Microsoft IP which keeps a lot
of support for it out of Linux. We should be able to at least read the
partitions however. If you are reinstalling Windows anyway you might
want to consider using FAT32 which works well under Linux.

A lot of the hardware SATA RAID is problematic...because is proprietary
and cheap. The folks on the LUG list will know better than I which ones
work and which don't. Although, the 3Ware SATA RAID cards work very
will with Linux.

LUG'ers, have at it. Also, you don't need to copy Remedy.

Thanks!

Jack Neely

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:40:35AM -0500, dwbroadb@ncsu.[redacted] wrote:
> Jack,
>
> Thank you for the explanation. Right now I am kind of frustrated with
> Linux distros. I tried College Linux and it did install without a hitch.
> But it wouldn't recognize my SATA hard drives and after 15 minutes of
> searching, I couln't figure out how to access my IDE hard drive (it's
> formatted with NTFS for windows).
>
> I then tried a 1.7GB download of Mandrake Linux, as it came highly
> recommended, but even after I burned the ISO onto 5 different DVDs using 2
> different programs (Nero and Alcohol 120%), I was unable to get a DVD that
> would install (each one gave me an error message 30 seconds into the
> install and quit).
>
> College Linux also screwed up my computer royally. I couldn't boot
> anything after it was done and had to reinstall Windows XP, which really
> sucked. While it had a boot loader, the boot loader program couldn't see my
> Windows installation because it was on my SATA Raid 0 hard drives.
>
> So, do you know of a Linux distro I could use that a.)will produce a
> error-free install CD/DVD and b.) can recognize not only a SATA hard drive,
> but two that are in a Striped Raid 0 array? I suppose I would have to
> download Linux SATA drivers from Silicon Image...
>
> I intend to create a Beowulf cluster, but how can I do that if I can't even
> install Linux by itself??
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> Dale
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Help Desk" <help@ncsu.[redacted]>
> To: <dwbroadb@ncsu.[redacted]>
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:24 PM
> Subject: Call 822858: trying to install linux
>
>
> >
> >Hello Dale,
> >
> >I appologize for the confusion. While older versions of Realm Linux are
> >available on ftp.linux.ncsu.edu (a version based on Fedora Core 2 being
> >the latest) we have migrated to using Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our
> >basis for Realm Linux. This is a licensed product that I cannot make
> >freely availible. I've been working with Red Hat to develop a way to be
> >able to distribute and track licenses for students at this time that is
> >not possible.
> >
> >I am on the lookout for a student that would be willing to help maintain a
> >Fedora Core based Realm Linux distribution. If you or some one you know
> >would be willing to help please let me know. There's some limited
> >developer documentation on the CLS web site and the Wiki.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >--
> >Jack Neely
> >Realm Linux Administration and Development
> >PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
> >Campus Linux Services
> >
> >
>
>
>
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Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Campus Linux Services Project Lead
PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
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