At 05:05 19/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I've got a pair of IDE drives here that I'd like to use to play with
>software RAID. Reading through the available HOWTOs has been
>enlightening, but hasn't answered my most basic question: how do I
>install a distribution to use it?
>
>Say I've got the pair of drives, available (equal) space on both drives,
>and my Mandrake CD. How do I go about creating the combined striped
>"drive" and install Mandrake?
>
>Anyone know of documentation on how to go about this?
>
Well I think you can't install linux on a RAID partition... You install
linux on a normal partition, and then you create the RAID partitions that
you can use with this installation.
I would say that after that you can move most parts of your distribution to
the RAID partitions, but the kernel and small things needed to boot the
system must reside on a normal partition. (it's software RAID : the
software needed must be accessible before you can reach the RAID partition)
- R�mi -
