At 13:20 19/03/99 +0100, you wrote:
>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 -
G'day,
I think the Root-RAID-Howto might help you. A quick perusal reveals
that it might be possible to mount the array via initrd and then load the
kernel
from there. But I could be completely wrong.
hih
ttfn
nick@nexnix
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