Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:04 AM, John Winters wrote: John Winters wrote: [suggestions on disc usage] Apologies for following up to my own post, but thinking more about the question it struck me that it's a bit silly to layer LVM on top of RAID0. Apart from maintaining symmetry it doesn't seem

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2007, at 5:21 AM, John Winters wrote: Assuming the answer is yes, then how about this as a plan? Create a 10G partition on each disc. Combine with RAID1. Use as /. Create a 1G partition on each disc. Combine with RAID1. Use as swap. Create, say, a 100G partition on each disc. C

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Andrew Haswell
system up and running! thanks again Andy - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Winters" &

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Haswell wrote: [snip] can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Andrew Haswell
AIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 7:20 AM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Haswell wrote: [snip] can you give me some advice as to what partitions to c

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: [suggestions on disc usage] Apologies for following up to my own post, but thinking more about the question it struck me that it's a bit silly to layer LVM on top of RAID0. Apart from maintaining symmetry it doesn't seem to have a lot of point because LVM alone provides all

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: I didnt mean to suggest that i wouldnt use the box. As i mentioned before im pretty new to linux coming from a windows backgroung so hope to pick up some skill using this as my home server because vmware is a pain. I just need to get it installed so i can start playing,

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Haswell wrote: [snip] can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Andrew Haswell wrote: can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partit

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread Andrew Haswell
IL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 2:15 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 Andrew Haswell wrote: Ok im going to get on and do this this weekend, probably the hardest part will be fitting all my data on other drives temporarily! If i remember correctly boot is written to

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: Ok im going to get on and do this this weekend, probably the hardest part will be fitting all my data on other drives temporarily! If i remember correctly boot is written to the flash at the end of the installation, The kernel and initrd are written to flash at the end

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread Andrew Haswell
o: Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 Andrew Haswell wrote: Hi, I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install Debian on my Thecus n2100. My skillset is wintel based not Linux which is to say that i am highly technical an

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:19:13PM -, Andrew Haswell wrote: > Sorry i wasnt clear, the n2100 has 2 disk and i want to use LVM / RAID to > provide an area of RAID1 storage across both disks and and area of raid0 > storage such that 2x 500GB disks could yeald say 200GB R1 and 600GB R0 > theref

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: Sorry i wasnt clear, the n2100 has 2 disk and i want to use LVM / RAID to provide an area of RAID1 storage across both disks and and area of raid0 storage such that 2x 500GB disks could yeald say 200GB R1 and 600GB R0 therefore not loosing 50% :-). Using LVM to divide the

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Haswell
nnart Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Haswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:57:53PM -, Andrew Haswell wrote: I've been waiting to see if the inst

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Haswell
me in the next 2 weeks :) thanks Andy - Original Message - From: "Martin Michlmayr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Haswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 * Andrew Haswell

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: Hi, I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install Debian on my Thecus n2100. My skillset is wintel based not Linux which is to say that i am highly technical and i would like to use my n2100 to cross train. As the installer doesnt seem to be g

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Bill Gatliff
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andrew Haswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-13 19:57]: I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install Debian on my Thecus n2100. [...] I would like to do this as a project over christmas, im just worried about getting stranded. Advice gr

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:57:53PM -, Andrew Haswell wrote: > I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install > Debian on my Thecus n2100. My skillset is wintel based not Linux which is > to say that i am highly technical and i would like to use my n2100 to cross >

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 08:53]: > Any idea if the same procedure will work for the n4100? The N4100 is not supported by Debian, but there are some instructions at http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Thecus_n4100 If you have a N4100 and want to work on getting d-i support, I c

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew Haswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-13 19:57]: > I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install > Debian on my Thecus n2100. [...] > > I would like to do this as a project over christmas, im just worried about > getting stranded. Advice greatfully received. G

Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Haswell
Hi, I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install Debian on my Thecus n2100. My skillset is wintel based not Linux which is to say that i am highly technical and i would like to use my n2100 to cross train. As the installer doesnt seem to be getting fixed, can anyon