<br><tt><font size=2>Subject: Re: [Server-devel] installing a school server<br>
To: "Joshua N Pritikin" <jpritikin@pobox.com><br>
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> Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with<br>
> Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can
I<br>
> get an ext2 image of the school server and load it on a logical<br>
> partition? I prefer to store anything important on LVM+RAID1. Does
the<br>
> school server understand this disk format?<br>
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>>Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image
(no<br>
>>"do your own partitioning" option yet, sorry). By default,
the XS<br>
>>install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID).</font></tt>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Joshua,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have documented some of the challenges
with LVM+RAID1 here:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-sw</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You can do RAID1 on a single drive,
but it doesn't provide any added protection.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To customize the XS ISO so that it allows
your own partitioning, the process is here:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tony Pearson</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(az990tony)</font>