Re: [seul-edu] Need advice

[Mike Lamasney <lamasney@mlode.com>]

At 10:26 PM 2/21/01 -0600, you wrote:
>    To all y'all experienced guys out  there,     I am putting together a
>file  server for my classroom that is going to be much faster that what has
>been there  before. (From a 486 with a 100mhz Overdrive and 40 meg to a 200
>mhz dual Pentium  Pro with over 100 meg - should be just a little quicker.)
>      A few  questions:  1. All ten clients run  Redhat 6.2, as does the
>old server. Should I load the same on the new one, or  upgrade to 7.0? I've
>become rather familiar with 6.2, so I'm wondering if there  is enough
>advantage to make it worthwhile? 
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  I recommend you keep with 6.2.

>2. Will I need to do something special
>when installing to take  advantage of the dual processors?  
Dunno.

>"" way to
>partition them? At first, there will not be  any xterms running off the
>server, but should I do anything special to reserve  space for later just
>in case? For now, all I really need is /home to be  available for
>read/write, and /opt and /usr/local for read  only.      In RH 6.2  with
>/boot, /home, /usr, /opt, and ./usr/local on separate partitions, the root 
>partition only takes about 100 to 120 meg. Would it be sufficient to
>reserve  about 200 meg for /, 500 meg for /home, 128meg for swap and 12 meg
>for boot on  one drive, while putting about 500 meg for /opt and the rest
>for /usr on the  other drive? Or is it better to make /usr/local a separate
> partition?   Thanks in advance for the advice. Dave Prentice
>prentice@instruction.com   
For a student server that might have some very large print queues
or log files, I recommend a separate partition for /var.