Re: LUG: Call 822858: trying to install linux - Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:20:33 -0500

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

From : Alex Marten <alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:20:33 -0500

Ubuntu is reported to work with SATA drives on the nForce 4 setups,
though I don't know about raid.

If your final goal is a hpc cluster and are having this much trouble
with installing a distro I would be sure to check out the OSCAR
project http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/.

On 11/15/05, Dale Broadbent <dwbroadb@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>
> Here is my motherboard
> http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?CategoryID=1&TypeID=31&DetailID=493&MenuID=16&LanID=0
>
> The SATA on the motherboard I believe is powered by NVIDIA. At least I put
> the NVIDIA drivers on a floppy and used that during windows setup for SATA
> recognition. My older motherboard (Chaintech ZNF3-250) used the Sil 3114
> SATA chipset.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Alex Marten" <alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]>
> To: <lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: LUG: Call 822858: trying to install linux
>
> > What SATA controller are you using?
> >
> > On 11/15/05, Jack Neely <jjneely@pams.ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> >> 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
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -- Original Headers --
> >> > >From dwbroadb@ncsu.[redacted] Tue Nov 15 09:40:34 2005
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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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> >
> >
> > --
> > Alex Marten
> > alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]
> >
> >

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Alex Marten
alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]