Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread drew einhorn
> the machines are screamer... > As in sound like an industrial strength vacuum clearer? Where did you get them? What did you pay for them? I've seen similar boxes dual 3.0 GHz Xenons upgradable to 12GB RAM SATA RAID controller from an unfortunately unreliable source. -- Drew Einh

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread RobertH
> Hi, > are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? > Try to look at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails > on disks with partitions. Deleting partitions helps before > install, sometimes I have to "create a new empty DOS > partition table" with fdisk. > Regards, > D

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
RobertH schrieb: > > > > i was wondering if others had bought any of these boxes and played with them > yet. they are pretty cheap and i have been looking for some cheap rackmount > boxes that i can throw large ata ide drives in to do some things with > > Just for kicks, can you try: - in

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread John R Pierce
David Hrbác wrote: > are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look > at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with > partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have > to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdisk or my old

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread
RobertH napsal(a): > u basically with centos 4 or 5 64 bit, it is freezing when i get to the > partitioning and want to continue forward or after partitioning and moving > towards the um place where one chooses software. Hi, are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try t

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-27 Thread RobertH
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable > systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE > > hi robert... > > what issues are you having? what params are you using as of now... > > > u basically with centos 4 or 5 64 bit, it is freezing when