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[seul-edu] Need advice
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?
2. Will I need to do something special when installing to take
advantage of the dual processors?
3. I will probably have a 1 gig and a 2 gig drive available.
Is there a "best" 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.