Topic: E-smith & NetWare on 1 harddisk

[Pieter van Haren]

I'm doing two projects at school:

#1. Build a network with at least three different server OS's(with four other people)
#2. Build a webapplication using PHP and MySQL(alone)

The problem is that for project #1 I'm using Novell NetWare 5.1 (because another member of the project uses e-smith and we can't use it both) and for project #2 I'm using e-smith (of course).

Because both of them are school projects, they must be very cheap, so each of the project members has gotten a single removeble harddisk for both the projects.

I thought it would be very easy to set both the servers up on one harddisk (LILO), but for some reason e-smith wants the whole harddisk for itsself.

Can anybody help me fix this problem, or has anyone done this before? Using a second harddisk is no option

Please advice when you think you know what I'm suppossed to do...

Pieter van Haren

[James Heathcote]

Hi,

There is absolutely NO way of running any other OS on the same hardisk as E-smith server, e-smith WILL erase EVERYTHING on the drive upon installation.

So basicallly you have to get ANOTHER hard disk, (Whether it is an option or not!!)

[Charlie Brady]

James Heathcote wrote:

> There is absolutely NO way of running any other OS on the
> same hardisk as E-smith server, e-smith WILL erase EVERYTHING
> on the drive upon installation.

Not true, actually. On the CDROM you will find a file images/boot.img. Copy it onto a floppy and you will have a boot floppy. On that floppy there is a file called ks.cfg. That is a kickstart file, which can be used to customise the installation, following RedHat's kickstart documentation which you can find by searching their website. Start by copying the contents of install/kickstart/install.cfg into ks.cfg on the boot floppy. Then make custom changes. In Pieter's case, he will wish to change the disk partitioning information.

Best of luck Pieter.

Regards

Charlie

[Pieter van Haren]

Charlie Brady wrote:
 

> On the CDROM you will find a file
> images/boot.img. Copy it onto a floppy and you will have a
> boot floppy. On that floppy there is a file called ks.cfg.
> That is a kickstart file, which can be used to customise the
> installation, following RedHat's kickstart documentation
> which you can find by searching their website. Start by
> copying the contents of install/kickstart/install.cfg into
> ks.cfg on the boot floppy. Then make custom changes. In
> Pieter's case, he will wish to change the disk partitioning
> information.

Thanks Charlie,

I found the two files and added the next lines to ks.cfg:

# partitioning parameters
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part /boot --size 10
part / --size 1 --grow
part swap --size 256

Then I custimized it to this:

# partitioning parameters
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part /boot --size 10
part / --size 1000
part swap --size 256

to set the rootpartition to 1 Gb.

That all worked well and I was able to install e-smith, but when I tried to make another partition with PartionMagic it said that there was an partition error. I couldn't see any partitions and PM said the size of my removeble harddisk was 0 Mb (which of course it isn't)

Is there any other way to make an partition to install NetWare?

Pieter