Notes from Rebuilding kristine                   May 27, 2005

Yurgis Baykshtis wanted to install Window 2003 Server so he can
install Microsoft's Sequel Server in order to do like-for-like
comparisions with DB2 under Linux on the same hardware.

Currently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS is installed.
I wanted to install the latest Red Hat Linux anyway, and I don't
know how to easily repartition (perhaps I should try?),
so we're gonna just blow everything away and rebuild it.

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Here is the state of affairs beforehand.

[root@kristine root]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             31864068  19460652  10784816  65% /
/dev/sda1               100692     25860     69633  28% /boot
none                   1027672         0   1027672   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3              1007992    938980     17808  99% /usr/vice/cache
/dev/sdb1            976476052   9480232 957230120   1% /db

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The Linux kernel is on /dev/sda (first SCSI drive), a 36GB drive.

[root@kristine root]# fdisk -l /dev/sda   

Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36401315840 bytes
254 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4442 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16002 * 512 = 8193024 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1        13    103981+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            14      4059  32372046   83  Linux
/dev/sda3          4060      4187   1024128   83  Linux
/dev/sda4          4188      4442   2040255    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5          4188      4442   2040223+  82  Linux swap

That /dev/sda4 is the extended partition, which just contains
Linux's 2GB swap space.

It's that /dev/sda2 partition that can be reduced from 32GB down
to oh, say 22GB, giving Windows 10GB for it's operating system.

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The second "drive" is an amalgamation of the 10 146GB drives,
which are RAID'd together in kristine's microcode to form a
1321 GB drive.

[root@kristine root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb   

Disk /dev/sdb: 1321.3 GB, 1321328443392 bytes
254 heads, 63 sectors/track, 161274 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16002 * 512 = 8193024 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1             1    122056 976570024+  83  Linux

That partition can be split also to give Microsoft's Sequel
Server room for its database, say 100GB?

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