[CentOS] Install question
Barry Brimer
lists at brimer.org
Sun Dec 23 02:00:52 UTC 2007
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> My questions are several.
>
> 1) The build hardware is only a single processor with 768MB of memory (also a
> P3) what if anything will I need to do to enable the second processor? (I'll
> make provisions for a larger swap space at build time)
I believe in CentOS 5, due to the popularity of hyperthreaded and dual
core cpus, the base kernel is smp-enabled. Someone please correct me if
I'm wrong
> 2) The build hardware won't have a second disk usable for RAID, is it
> possible to build the RAID as degraded during the install? Or am I better
> off building it as a non RAID system and transfer everything to a RAID disk
> later?
I would do the latter. I've not tried building a raid, degrading it and
then using it only to add another disk later, although in theory it could
be done, I believe.
> 3) The system bios will allow me to boot off the network, can I do an install
> from that boot? there is no CD/DVD reader in the box, nor is there a floppy
> drive. USB (flash?) may possible, but it is USB1.0 (1.1?) and quite slow and
> I'm not 100% positive the BIOS will support booting from a USB device.
Yes. Check out cobbler <http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/>
> Any other caveats to be aware of? My experience with linux has been several
> Fedora (core) releases some Redhad releases prior to that, and many many many
> years ago slackware (when the install was a stack of diskettes!)
Nope. I think you'll be fine.
Welcome to CentOS!
Barry
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