Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-03 Thread Marco Fretz
hi, we had the same problem with newer HP pcs and servers (broadcom nics). pxe works well on broadcom, the install not. doesn't matter if you're using kickstart or manual install. the problem was in centos 4.2. after updating the install environment to 4.5 the problem was gone... so it was a driv

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-03 Thread Marco Fretz
admin wrote: > I believe that if /boot is on RAID1, that md partition has to be on one > of the first two disks (eg hda, hdb)? > > Is there any problem with having /boot on a RAID1 partition across 4 > disks as follows? > > /boot/ (LVM) > hdaRAID1RAID5 > hdbRAID1RAID5 > hd

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Fretz
Jussi Hirvi wrote: > This may not be directly useful to you. > > As a general strategy, I have been thinking of making / and other important > partitions (if any) raid1 at system install - even when there is no second > disk. Someone just wrote that even the /boot partition can be raid1. Yes, the

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Fretz
josh donovan wrote: > I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a > spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup > and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've > done e.g. the DNS Server is set to lo

[CentOS] Possible bug in ifup-eth script of Centos 5.2 (combination of bond and bridge)

2008-07-24 Thread Marco Fretz
Dear CentOS, I think i found a "bug" in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth script of CentOS 5.2. i can post the my changed ifup-eth script if you want. Am I the first one with this problem? Situation: - eth2 and eth3 should be in bond1 interface - bond1 should be an interface of bridg