Arthur wrote:

Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:36:45 +0000 From: Arthur Butler <[email protected]> Subject: [Bdi4emc-help] Install Help please To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

Hi.

Thank you for working on these programs. Unfortunately I'm having trouble installing the BDI 4.30 version. I'm not a complete newby, have used Redhat, and now Debian on other PC's. I've checked the md5sum of the iso downloaded, and of the CD itself. I've turned "detect virus by trend" off in the bios, and am using LBA mode for the 40G hard drive, and reburnt the CDRW to a CDR just incase, all as suggested in the FAQ. The install starts fine, all packages are then installed, but when the screen saying "post install config" or something pops up it crashes. The PC I'm trying to install on is a 500MHz AMD K6II processor, with 128MB RAM. I think there was a problem with BDI on K6 processors, but think newer versions of BDI are OK. I'm trying to use LVM too, with my own partitioning scheme, based on that I've used on my desktop PC. I'm <<<stuff deleted>>> I'm wondering about trying either a minimal install with lvm, or running the upgrade script on the partially working version.

I doubt that the AMD K6 is the problem, although there is always plenty of room for error with the variety of motherboards and BIOSes out there. Over the last 4 years, I have installed various versions of Red Hat and Fedora Core Linux on a no-name 600 MHz AMD K6 machine with absolutely no difficulty. When I get a chance later this week, I'll try installing BDI-4.30 to it just to be sure. Note that 128MB of RAM isn't very much memory. If you're unlucky the system will start paging to disk with an attendant hit in performance. I have no experience whatever with LVM (although I've used the equivalent functionality on Silicon Graphics' commercial version of Unix known as IRIX) but when I search Google on combinations like "lvm install debian" and "lvm problem debian" I get plenty of hits. Since the BDI is based on the Debian kernel and packaging, I'd try to reduce the problem to its simplest form by first doing a trial install of the latest stable version of the Debian distribution to make sure I could get it running over LVM2 and only then try installing the BDI with LVM2. I suppose it is possible that the real-time extensions added to support EMC could interfere with LVM, but Paul's already pointed out a more likely possibility. It's just my 2-cents worth, but I think EMC should run on its own dedicated host, in which case I'm not sure LVM buys you much anyway. Regards, Kent