OK when you say livecd, do you mean the Centos 5.1 distro disks? I have a full set of them, a 7 disk set I got from Linux Central. Can I just boot off disk 1 from my set?
LiveCD as in the livecd:
eg : http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso
...or, if I left the install the way it is now, are there any dis advantages of leaving the file system the way it is - spread over two hard drives?
nope, just that if you loose one drive, you loose everything ( potentially ) on the entire filesystem
Should just get another hard drive and back it up the way it is? Would ther be any problems with my backup if left the way it is?
Both those should be fine
Or ahould I just do a complete re install of the OS after backing up my data...
What do you reccomend -leave it as is, re configure it, or re install it?
I'd recommend you spend the time in learning about lvm and resize the filesystem down to one drive, LVM does take about 2 - 3 hours to work out, but once you do work it out - its fantastic and something that makes Linux really worthwhile :D
but that is my personal opinion, you should still do whatever you feel like - it is, after all, a free world :D
Hi there,
I downloaded and burned the LiveCD, and am able to boot off ot it, at least I got off to a start!
You mentioned a few days ago the LVM HowTo - Is this what you were talking about: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ ? Or did you mean someplace on the Centos site? I'm going through the other URL you posted - http://www.centos.org/docs/5/, have not found anything specifically titled "lvm how to" yet.
Also I tried booting off of LiveCD and got the below warning, wondered if you could give me a clue as to where to start:
Warning: Cannot Find Root File System!
Create symlin /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence.
Bash: No job control in this shell bash-3.1#
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