Linux distro on Dell PowerEdge R300

[John Roehrig]

Take a look at this HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/requirements.html#number

The /boot partition is a legacy device used to ensure that the kernel would reside on the first 1024 cylinders of the disk (IIRC). It is useful still, however, because it allows sharing of kernels between multiple Linux installs and can have different partition restrictions. 

Does anyone know if the R300's BIOS has this 1024 limit?

I would recommend that you have a separate /var partition to prevent logs from filling up your root partition. If you have multiple users on the machine, you should also have a separate /home or at least implement quotas. This will prevent non-privileged users from filling up your disk. It is also a good idea to have a /tmp partition.

As for your distro, I believe you've chosen wisely. I began using Linux with an early version of Slackware as well. It's not one of the easy-to-use distros, so you'll have to do a lot of things yourself. Think of this as a good thing, it will help you learn the internals of the operating system and allow you to be a more powerful user.


Cheers,
Jack Roehrig
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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Marc Pigeon
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:42 AM
To: Bogdan Stoica
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: Linux distro on Dell PowerEdge R300


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:20 +0200, Bogdan Stoica wrote:
> Hello people. I just bought a Dell PowerEdge R300 and I want to 
> install a linux server on it. I was thinking at installing Slackware 
> 12.2 I will have Apache, proftpd, bind9, mysql, and postfix and a file 
> server probably. Wich is the most recomended distro for this, and what 
> is the best partition setup? 4 GB RAM and 2x750 GB SATA hard drives. Thank you.
> 
	I have the same R300 in production but with Centos-5.2

	my partitionning is
	sda1	100M		/boot
	sda2	100M		/res/boot
	sda3	8G		swap
	sda5	15G		/
	sda6	15G		/res
	sda7	remaining	/work

	The purpose of /res is to be able to install
	another distro while keeping current
	available in case of trouble.
	(this partitionning is with raid-5 in mind,
	  but I still use it on raid-1).

	My 2 cents..

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