Software RAID

[Zane C.B.]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:12:49 -0700 (PDT)
Tom Spec <samag70-ignore at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> When      you get to the Disk Partitioning Setup screen during the
> installation,      choose Manually Partition with Disk DruidIf
> there are already partitions on the disk delete themClick      RAID,
> choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sda (or
> hda) only,      choose fixed size, 250 MB, and click OKClick
> RAID, choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sdb
> (or hdb) only,      choose fixed size, 250 MB, and click OKClick
> RAID, choose Create a RAID device, click OK, choose /boot as the
> mount      point, File System Type ext3, RAID Device md0, RAID Level
> RAID1, select      sda and sdb, click OKClick      RAID, choose
> Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sda (or hda)
> only,      choose Fill to maximum allowable size, click OKClick
> RAID, choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sdb
> (hdb) only,      choose Fill to maximum allowable size, click
> OKClick      RAID, choose Create a RAID device, choose File System
> Type physical volume      (LVM), RAID Device md1, RAID Level RAID1,
> select sda and sdb, click OKClick      LVM, click Add, create logical
> volumes as required (don't forget SWAP)Continue      the remainder of
> the OS installation normallyAfter the OS is up, you should do this do
> this as root to make sure both disks would be bootable:

You really do not want to do it this way. Setting up raid on a
partitions just seems like such a bad idea on so many levels. You
should do it on the entire disk. Last time I remember messing with it,
the setup screen for that was not capable of doing that.
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