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How do I create a VM with RHEL5 and two formatted HD's?

Experts,

I am attempting to create a VM with two hard drives. My goal is to load RHEL on both HD's but the second drive should only house the DATA in my Postgres9.0.2 database. We have a security requirement that forces us to place the DATA on a separate drive. How do I accomplish this task?

Thank You, Missymadi

farzanj

Here is a detailed step by step guide by Redhat for RHEL5
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Virtualization/index.html

missymadi

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I was interested in the VMware to add two HD's and install RHEL5. I can add another hard drive in the configuration of VMWare but how do I get the HD formatted ? My goal is to load Postgres9.0.2 on sda and have DATA on sda1(or whatever the 2nd hard drive is listed)

Thanks, Missymadi

farzanj

Follow this guide
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf

Basically, you will be installing a basic RHEL5 system/ or you may have it now. By basic I mean, the base system should not be loaded with any packages that are not absolutely required.

The you would simply install VMWare on it. Once you have VMWare installed, then you would install your required software on a virtual vmware instance

Danny McDaniel

there's a GUI disk management tool (can't remember the exact name of it) that you can use to create volumes on the 2nd disk and set them to automount at boot time.

Or, during installation of RedHat, you can do a custom partition layout, too.

Is that what you were wanting to know???

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