[K12OSN] RAID issues with K12 RC1

[Jim Kathan]

GThanks Eric, I will give it a shot. Enjoy your vacation! :)

--- Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote: 
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Jim Kathan wrote:
> 
> > This is primarily for Eric.
> >
> > The 64-bit RAID driver in the 64-bit version of FC5 within K12 is really old
> > and outdated, from 2004, I believe. But even when I attempted to slip in the
> > newest, I still received the same issues as before, but this time, it got to
> > formatting 99% of the drive and then froze. I can get you the exact error if
> > you like. I will try the RC2 tomorrow. Thanks for all the hard work!
> 
> If it freezed during installation, then RC2 won't make a difference to you :-(
> 
> 
> The Fedora Unity Project is building re-spun versions of FC5 that use a
> newer kernel for the installer:   http://fedoraunity.org/
> 
> The only download link I saw was for BitTorrent, so I hope you know how
> to use that ;-)
> 
> In theory (I have not tested this in a while, so I may miss a step or two...),
> you can do an install off of stock FC5 discs (or the re-spun Fedora Unity
> discs) and manually set the K12LTSP network defaults:
> 
>  	eth0: 192.168.0.254/255.255.255.0
>  	eth1: dhcp (or whatever static IP you have for your network)
> 
> After the OS install completes, download and install the k12ltsp-release
> package. Currently that is:
> 
>  	wget ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/5.0.0-64bit/x86_64/Fedora/RPMS/k12ltsp-release-5.0.0-0d.noarch.rpm
> 
>  	rpm -ihv k12ltsp-release-5.0.0-0d.noarch.rpm
> 
> 
> The install the K12LTSP meta-packages:
> 
>  	yum install k12ltsp-core k12ltsp-education k12ltsp-extras
> 
> After the these packages and their dependancies are installed, run this
> script:
> 
>  	/opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/K12Linux-LTSP-initialize
> 
> and finally reboot.
> 
> If all the magic worked, you should now have a K12LTSP server.
> 
> -Eric
> 
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