RAW devices

[John Rowan]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 14:43 -0400, John Rowan wrote:
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>>The application I seek to run on FC4 requires raw partition support.  
>>RH9 had such raw devices defined but there is nothing like it from what 
>>I can see in FC4.  The vendor, Raining Data, will not support Fedora 
>>Core, recommeding clients purchase RHES instead.  On their user forum 
>>one person suggested to use White Box Linux or CentOS (his preference).  
>>I tried White Box some time ago but didn't have the time to invest in 
>>yet another distribution.  I have the same feeling about CentOS but if 
>>Raw partitions are not part of FC4 I guess I'll be downloading a new 
>>distro soon.
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>To use a raw partition, simply do not format it.  Run fdisk to create
>the partition. Then the pickDB can be told to use that partition and it
>should be happy.
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>AFAICT CentOS is equivalent to RHES4 and WhiteBox is equivalent to
>RHES3.  I may be behind on their status, but if you get CentOS you have
>basically the same as RHES and it should work the same.
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 From what I understand you are correct that CentOS is RHES repackaged.  
I downloaded the 4 ISOs, burned them to CDs and built the machine with 
CentOS.  The raw partition and software to work with it is included in 
this distribution.  I was able to install the Pick software and restore 
the data into that application. 

I've noticed a shift in the job marketplace where many positions 
required RHES or RHAS.  At least now with CentOS I can seek out 
positions looking for experience with RHES.


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