Is it possible to build RAID-1 on install before installing any packages. I was looking at the software-RAID howto, and it says to install linux on a single partition, then create your RAID devices, and then move the data over to the raid devices. Here is my setup:
/dev/sda1 swap 64 Megs /dev/sda5 / 100 Megs /dev/sda6 /boot 10 megs /dev/sda7 /usr 700 Megs /dev/sda8 /tmp 250 Megs /dev/sda9 /var 350 Megs /dev/sda10 /home 7000 Megs /dev/sdb1 64 Megs /dev/sdb5 100 Megs /dev/sdb6 10 megs /dev/sdb7 700 Megs /dev/sdb8 250 Megs /dev/sdb9 350 Megs /dev/sdb10 7000 Megs As you can see, I have configured two disks almost identical. I want to turn /dev/sda7 and /dev/sdb7 into /dev/md0 which in turn will be mounted at /var and then I want to do /dev/sda10 and /dev/sdb10 into /dev/md1 which in turn will be mounted at /home When I read the software raid-HOWTO, it says install Linux on one root partition and then prepare those other partitions, but don't mount them. Then once you have a small running system, create the raid partitions, copy your data over, change you /etc/fstab so it mounts the /dev/mdx and voila, you are off and running. Here's the problem. I only have 100 Megs as root. I suppose I could install a teenie tiny system on this, but it would be nice to create the /dev/mdx devices before installation. Is this possible? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
