Glad it was of some use, If you are copying Windows partitions with G4U there is a utility to zero out the empty parts of the partitions, which allows the Gzip compression to be more effective.... Otherwise a 20Gig Partition takes up 20Gigs on the ftp server.... P. Jonathan wrote: > This is ideal. I'll definitely start using this. > > Thanks Peter. > > Jonathan > > Peter Farrow wrote: > >> What I would do is this: >> >> used G4U to clone the other machine if it is identical, >> >> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ >> >> G4U works very well, and boots Free/NetBSD, it boots from CDROM, and >> backs up to an FTP server which you will have because you have the >> other machines. >> >> Then G4U boot the new machine and slurp the image back down.... >> >> This may work, its slow to create the images and needs a lot of disk >> space on the ftp server, but slurping the data back is fast.... >> >> This would give you an image of the install which you can use for DR >> as well... >> >> P. >> >> >> Jonathan wrote: >> >>> No, in fact I didn't. Odd. I did have to pass a crapload of bootup >>> commands (noscsi among them), but I have no record of what I used... >>> >>> Thanks fer the help... >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> Peter Farrow wrote: >>> >>>> But.... did you use software RAID on the other identical machine >>>> you installed with the older disk? >>>> >>>> P. >>>> >>>> >>>> Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote: >>>> >>>>> Unfortunately the "Raid controller " that the hardware says that >>>>> comes with, uses a software driver in order to perform the raid >>>>> functions. So to make the long story short just use the OS soft raid >>>>> functionality >>>>> >>>>> Have fun. >>>>> Good day >>>>> >>>>> Nikos >>>>> >>>>> On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j at firebright.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> List: >>>>>> >>>>>> Good morning. I'm hoping someone is still up who can lend me an >>>>>> ear. >>>>>> I'm sitting on the floor of Mae West surrounded by disassembled >>>>>> servers, >>>>>> frustrated out of my mind. Same as last weekend. ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, I'm having a weird issue. I have a Dell 420SC in front of >>>>>> me. It's a fine machine, brand new. p4 2.8 800Mhz bus, 1GB DDR2 >>>>>> (2x512) and dual 80GB drives. I've used the onboard raid to build a >>>>>> raid-0+1 (mirror) raid array. The problem is, it's telling me as >>>>>> soon >>>>>> as I load up the setup for CentOS 4 that no drives are available and >>>>>> that I should load up some. >>>>>> >>>>>> Odd. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have three machines running CentOS 4 over here with the identical >>>>>> specs, and identical settings. One even has the exact same >>>>>> configuration, including raid setup, and it's running happily. >>>>>> But it >>>>>> was installed from and older CentOS 4 disk (got scratched). I've >>>>>> got >>>>>> about 12 more to do tonight. How is it possible that the same >>>>>> machine >>>>>> with concurrent serial numbers won't load RAID? Is there some >>>>>> trick? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm really at a loss on this one. I'm on the 14th floor. Now if I >>>>>> could get one of these windows to open, I think I have a very easy >>>>>> solution... >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone have any experience with this? Is there some trick to >>>>>> getting >>>>>> these 420SC's to load CentOS? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>>> >>>>>> Jonathan >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> CentOS mailing list >>>>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos