[TriLUG] Converting an NT Server to Linux

[Tom Boucher]

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> If you've got the data on a separate disk (or have an additional 
> available
> disk) I think the simplest path will be to physically remove the disk,
> install linux on what remains, put the data disk(s) back in, mount 
> them,
> and do whatever else needs doing from within linux.  You may need to 
> use
> the read-only NTFS support, depending on how the NT disk is formatted.
>

Yeah I thought of that.  but part of the problem with the server is 
that they created multiple RAID arrays in groups of 4 or 5 drives for 
some reason instead of a larger array.  Some of the arrays are running 
out of space while of course the others have tons.

So I was hoping to be able to re-create the arrays (and with a hot 
spare since this machine is almost 3 years old now) so we could get 
some space consolidation and some drive failure protection on this old, 
9GB 7200 RPM SCSI drives.