hi marcus
to make any raid partition...
you have to either..
a. depend/assume that the installer will allow you to
make raid filesystems
b. create your raid filesystems manually like in the old days
not sure if the debian installer allows oyu to create
"raid partition types" AFTER you have fdisk'd your virgin disk
and BEFORE assigning your mount points to proceed with installing
the distro of your choice..
by default, linux-2.2 and 2.4 supports raid0/1 without
doing anything special...other than configuring for it
i suspect your root raid booting problems is arising from having
/ and /boot on different partitions... donno...just a guess
have fun
alvin
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Marcus Marinelli wrote:
> Alvin,
>
> how do i make the / partition to put those binaries on?
>
> i want to make it raid0, remember?
>
> i think we are on two different thought-process' here, thanks for the
> help, but I think i'm just going to have to wait it out till the next
> deb. release when woody becomes stable w/2.4
>
> marcus
>
> Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> >hi ya
> >
> >okay...on last post/try...
> >
> >my question still is.... what happens if you remove
> >/boot partition and keep all initial binaries needed for booting
> >in ONE partition ( / ) ......does it work than...
> >
> >and if one wants to have a 30Mb complete debian...
> >i'd guess you'd have to install one package at a time
> >and doit from a machine that you can pick and choose
> >which packages to install manually to make the bootable media
> >
> >have fun
> >albin
> >
> >-- was fun to make a 2.5Mb tar file that boots into 8Mb linux
> >-- running in /dev/ramxx
> >--
> >-- so 32Mb is plenty of disk space...
> >--
> >
> >On Thu, 10 May 2001, Marcus Marinelli wrote:
> >
> >>Zac,
> >>
> >>Excellent! We have at least one guy who understands what I was asking
> >>;-) Thanks, hopefully this will clarify things a little bit...
> >>
> >>If anyone has any ideas now that the question has been restated, I will
> >>still apreciate the help, if not, well thats how life goes...
> >>
> >
>
> --
> C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but
> when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
>
>
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