>> Are you running X86 or X86_64?
>> X86
OK, bit of a waste but OK.
> 'cos I'm not the admin. I find myself in the position of linux-guru to
> our new (still novice) admin but he gets to call the shots. A very tough
> experience for me who's used to screwing around with my machines...
Surprised your not the admin.
> Our DOSA CD allowed us to adjust partition sizes (for a predefined set (/
> /home /usr /boot)) and allowed two more optional partitions to be defined.
> Mind you, only on the primary disk. The second disk (raid 5 900Gb) was
> partitioned by hand.
Must check out the new DOSA cd's, have not used them in a while.
If they have changed this feature, then thats a very good thing.
> Do you retain the Dell Diagnostic partition? Presumably if we have a
> fault, Dell support will ask us to boot that first...
Well, it can happen, but not that often.
Personally I have never asked for such a thing, but I am not on front line
defense.
>> Go get yerself the latest RHEL cd's from
>>https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/download_isos.pxt>> In the plan once we figure out what support we're buying. Speaking to
> RedHat somebody said: "Dell clients usually buy their RH support through
> Dell.
Yes, Dell sell RHN access, and provide the support for Redhat. When we
need to escalate (which thankfully is very rare), then we create cases in
Redhat's issue-tracker DB, or I call the TAM in RH directly, he is another
biker, actually most of redhat europe are bikers. Our bikes are naturally
penguin powered, or will be when someone sends me a decent link to where I
can get a _tastefull_ sticker. My bike is far to beautiful to ruin.
Anyone?
> them." OTOH, Dell seem to be selling only 3-incident RH support with the
> system and didn't offer any ongoing RH support (only the RHN
> subscription). Once we figure this out, we'll buy a support subscription
> and I'll start harvesting isos...
That'll be either Silver 24/7 or Gold support contract. Both have three
software incidents as standard. However, this does not include mickey
mouse issues -> hardware, drivers, openmanage, dell's fault etc., etc.
Basically, you never get refused. Is there a SAN in this? That gets
addition support.
>> The latest iso's have all the drivers you will require all magically in
>> the default kernels. But why not go for RHEL4 instead? Its "free" ;-0
>>https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=2875>> I'll certainly be moving our devel server to RHEL4, primarily because of
> mount.cifs so I can test a free terminal server as a contrast to the
> Citrix server currently being piloted.
Never even knew that existed, is it like the linux terminal server
project? I must check that out....
> I'll see if I can persuade our
> admin to move the apps server across too. What's the best migration plan
> there? At present, nothing has been done with the system so we could do a
> direct install. Later, we might want to use the upgrade option. Does
> this work well? Suppose I can ask RH about that...
If by upgrade you mean RHEL 3 to RHEL4, its possible, although there can
be issues, black screens for example, but I believe these bugs have been
worked out. If you have any issues, then ping me and we can sort it oot.
> Conor
> --
> Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>
Shamone,
Conor.
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