RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4i : webserver down

["Paul Shuttleworth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tim Larson
> Sent: 16 December 2003 15:09
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4i : webserver down
>
>
> On 12/16/2003 7:10 AM, Gerald Waugh felt like writing:
>
> > The RaQs have a poor hard drive partition schema. For starters
> there should
> > be a seperate partion for /usr.
>
> I haven't been using RaQs very long, but this is the very first thing I
> noticed as well.  I have a ton of /home space I'll likely never use, but
> barely any root space for new applications and such.  There's no way to
> set up partitions before installing the OS, huh?
>
> Tim
> --

Yes there is Tim you can create a Custom OSRCD with 3gb and 1.5gb partitions
on.
While you are at it you can incorporate all the patches you want to so that
when you do the OS restore it is a fully patched server.

Something like this -

Download the latest RAQ4 OSRCD iso from the SUN ftp site.
Download any PKG files you need.


You need to make sure that the sun packages are loaded first AND in the
correct order.
so rename your package files

01_Raq4.all.etc.etc.etc
02_Raq4.kernel update .etc.etc

so that they get loaded in the order 01, 02, 03 etc (01 the oldest pkg
loaded first)
Put them in

\NFSROOT_X86\BTO_SYNC\BUNDLES

and they will be loaded after the os restore

have a look at Bruce Timberlakes how to
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2002-May/070800.html

you need to update this how to incorporate all the latest patches.

If you are restoring your server you may want to increase the size of the /
and /var partitions especially if you have larger hard drives.

The Partition_Table referred to is in

/nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/production/<release_spec>/installer/release_spec.<prod
uct>

 For example, on RaQ 4r, it's

 /nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/production/3100R_1.155/installer/release_spec.3100R

 The relevant bit of the file looks like:

 # This is the partition table for the product
 %begin Partition_Table
 0,750,83              ### change this to  0,3000,83
 ,158,5
 ,200,83              ### change this to  ,1500,83
 ,,83
 ,30,83
 ,,82
 %end Partition_Table

This will give 3 gig and 1.5 gig /var and / partitions.

Paul.