From: Peter Unmack (peter@fish.la.asu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 21:05:00 EDT
G'day folks
Thanks to everyone for their answers. Basically the answer was go with
the 4 gig disk as the boot disk.
Tom Myers and others summed things up pretty well with
Also, you can build on any SCSI drive in the system, not just those with
HP firmware. The 712 family is VERY forgiving on this. The worst I've
had to do is run mediainit on drives which came out of Solaris or AIX
machines.
Original message is below.
Cheers
Peter
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Peter Unmack wrote:
> G'day folks
>
> After being hacked I decide to install 11. Figured the easiest thing to
> do is cold install and start completely fresh. Machine is 712/60
> currently running 10.20. My boot disk is only 1 gig and I don't currently
> use the logical volume manager. This disk is too small to install 11.0
> on, thus I'm unclear on exactly the correct way to proceed. After having
> spent several hours looking for answers to my questions I figured I'd try
> the list.
>
> My presumption is during the installation process I need to set
> up lvm.
>
> I presume I can't use one of my other 3 disks (all are seagate 4 gig
> drives) as the boot disk since it doesn't have hp's piece of firmware on
> it?
>
> Thus I would need to set up lvm across my current boot disk and one 4 gig
> drive. However, it is unclear to me during the installation process as to
> how to select the correct 4 gig drive to lvm along with the boot disk.
> (It does select a drive, but not the one I want to use.)
>
> Maybe all this just isn't possible and the only option is to set up lvm
> first, and then attempt an upgrate? However, if I upgrade, will this
> remove any stuff a hacker may have left behind? Unfortunately, I don't
> have any backups handy here that I can use prior to being hacked.
>
> Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Peter
>
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