Re: A couple of Galaxy questions

From: Frank Cusack (fcusack_at_fcusack.com)
Date: 09/23/05 

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:22:26 -0700

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:24:26 GMT Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
>> It can, because you can setup the Ferrari as a boot server. It's trivial.
>
> That's true. ALthough I have a habit of frequently blowing away the
> OS on my Ferrari for new installs (and I prefer to do a new rather
> than upgrade install), so it'd be nice to not have to worry about
> naything on the Ferrari rather than just the OS. But yeah, setting
> it up as a boot server wouldn't be a bad compromise, given how infrequently
> I plan to rely on it. :-)

I can't say for sure, since I know nothing about the virtual CD support,
but probably it's just as easy either way. Setting up a boot server
these days is just running 2 scripts that live on the boot DVD itself.

I assume running as a virtual CD is just running some application.
It's probably a little more work because you'll have to set something
up in the OBP/BIOS/whatever the 4100 has.

I want to get a 4100 with 4 drives, but if I need more than 2 drives I
need an array anyway. So even though I'd never use the DVD (it's sooo
much slower than network boot), I'll also never use the extra drives.
One consideration though is that I can do a RAID-1 boot disk and have
a hot spare.

-frank