On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > Now I am installing Debian Woody. A fresh install. I cannot find how > during the installation to setup software RAID. Anyone know?
If I'm remembering right, you can't do this for a Raid5 array.(is this still true?) I just did this on a Raid1 fresh install. Basically you install debian just like you normally would, on a non-raid setup.(id 0?) compile your kernel with raid support/etc build a raid array using another disk(probably id 1), and set the one you just installed on(id0) as a "failed-disk". This goes second in the raid1 definition. copy the one disk to the raid array, setup the machine to boot off that. once you reboot off the degraded array, and verify it works, you blow away the one disk, and then make it part of the raid array, which fills up the "failed-disk". It resync's your raid1 setup, and you're all set to go. it's documented in the RAID boot howto. You'd have to make a partition for your boot/root/whatever and then have the rest of your disks setup as raid 5. so you'd just pick your first two drives(if your bios is anything like most scsi cards i've seen, id 0 and 1 are the ones that will let you boot), and you do a 50 meg or whatever raid1. then with the rest of the drives minus 50 meg, you raid5, which is easier to setup because it's not your boot disk and stuff. shoot me off an email tomorrow if you get stuck, it's 2:15am, and I have to be at work in 4.5 hours to supervise the air conditioning guys as they put a new a/c unit in our server room.(complete freon leak, a/c unit in the ceiling is fubar, and has failed twice in the last year, and i'd have to remove all the racks/computers/etc, for them to repair it. easier and cheaper to just buy a new one and leave the old one up there to rust out someday). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
