Kent West wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> I recommend that you ignore the hardware raid and instead use software >>> raid. The Debian installer can set up software raid for you at system >>> installation time. It is easy. But it is also a little confusing. > ... > It still wasn't easy, but it worked.
I probably shouldn't have said it like that and given too much of an impression there that it was too trivial. Because I admit that the debian-installer is a little confusing on one particular area and that is setting up RAID and LVM. But I don't know how to make the use model better. Without a suggestion I can't complain about it. The confusion I see people go through is that initially there are no visible settings for RAID or LVM on the top level partition display. First you have to set up a partition to be either RAID or LVM and then the option of configuring it appears on the the top level display. It is logical and makes sense and I have been through it so often I don't think about it anymore. But in helping others I have seen many people stumped at that point because the first action is in a sub-display menu and there isn't a hook to drag them down to it from the top. The guided setup using lvm works fairly well though. I just used it for the first time and was quite happy to see that the default actions all seemed to do what I wanted them to do. I think in the future I will be able to recommend guided partitioning with lvm with everything in one filesystem and expect the d-i to set it up automatically. > Thanks for the info! Glad to help. Bob
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