[Cialug] CentOS & GPT

[Josh More]

I know you know this, but I have to mention that OpenSUSE and Fedora are poor choices for enterprise needs.  It's not that they don't work, it's that the lifespan of the distro version is so short that you have to rebuild the server too often.

I think that the cost for SLES is well offset by the time it would take to maintain Fedora or OpenSUSE.

-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of L. V. Lammert [lvl at omnitec.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 15:32
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] CentOS & GPT

At 02:48 PM 9/7/2010, you wrote:

>Given that CentOS 5 is based upon RHEL 5 and
>that RHEL 5 is a couple of years old now it
>shouldn't be surprising that stuff like GPT
>partitions aren't supported.  After all, that's
>kind of the point of an enterprise distribution.
>Give the RHEL 6 beta a try and see if it supports GPT drives.

That's the same conclusion I came to, .. though I
did get one reply from a associate that suggested
SLES. Trying OpenSuSE right now [as I have a boot
disk], .. might switch to Fedora.

Bottom line, however, SLES reportedly has GPT in
current versions, RHEL does not.

         Lee

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