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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Hi everybody, </span></font></span><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
<br>
<span class=postbody1>I'm brand new on Linux, and I would like to move smoothly
from the windows world to the Linux one. </span><br>
<span class=postbody1>I have installed mandriva 2006 on a dedicated disc on my
machine. Windows is installed on another bunch of discs, which are mounted in
RAID1 using nforce4 chipset. </span><br>
<span class=postbody1>Even if the installation of Linux went well, mandriva now
see 2 discs (in fact, 4 partitions, as my discs are split in 2 partitions),
which contains the same data (which is normal, as they are in RAID1</span><img
width=15 height=15 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01C60B2A.AD8A1EC0"
alt=Smile border=0><span class=postbody1>). </span><br>
<span class=postbody1>I have read that I should use dmraid and device mapper to
let Linux see my discs as one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I have installed dmraid (at least I
think), and I think I have installed as well device mapper. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I discovered today I had to umount
the ntfs partition, and do a <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>#modprobe dm-mod <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>#dmraid –ay<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Now I can see in /dev/mapper my
discs (in fact I can see 3, which is weird as I just have 2 partitions on my
discs, but that’s ok).<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Now, I have no idea how to mount
the discs so I can go to the drives. I tried <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>#mount –t /dev/mapper/nameofmydisc
<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>But it didn’t work…<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Can somebody help me for: </span></font></span><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
<span class=postbody1>- see my win partition from lilo or grub, so I can boot
either on windows or mandriva?</span><br>
<span class=postbody1>- see my RAID discs as one in mandriva so I can access my
files from Linux?<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Thank you very much for your help<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Franck<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody1><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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