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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Pieter van Haren on November 06, 2001, 05:47:23 PM
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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
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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!!)
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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
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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