You should be able to setup the RAID devices during install... it is
pretty straight forward if you know what RAID levels you want.  Redhat
will support booting off RAID-1 or RAID-5 in software.  Just
setup/partition the raid devices in disk druid just like any other disks.  
Also you'll want to write a script to monitor /proc/mdstat and notify you
if one of the raid members fails.  Of course all this is for software
RAID... if your SCSI cards are RAID, then it's a whole different setup
(much easier).

Any reason for 7.1?  I've had better luck with 7.2 or 7.3.  I would go 
with 7.3 just for ext3.

Also Advanced Server shines when you have two boxes connected to shared
storage (ie Fibrechannel/SAN), for HA/failover.  Or if you are running
Oracle and need the extensive kernel enhancements that Redhat did.  
Otherwise Advanced Server might not do much for you...

-ray
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Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist              AIX Administration, AIX Support
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Guys,
> I have the opportunity to add 3 Linux servers to the corporate production 
> environment.  I am excited about this but need someone to point me in the 
> right direction about one of the configuration details.
> All three will use RedHat 7.1, and I believe we will use Advanced Server.
> Server #1 will have 2 Internal SCSI drives in a RAID 1 configuration.
> Server #2 will have 3 Internal SCSI drives in a RAID 5 configuration.
> Server #3 will have 2 Internal SCSI drives and 6 External SCSI drives 
> configured into 4 mirrored pairs - RAID 1
> This last server will use RedHat 7.1 (2.4.18-17-smp)
>  
> I need someone to point me to a place where I can get info for setting up the 
> RAID configuration for these 3 servers.
> 
> Anyone....anyone??
> Thanks,
> Cleve
> 
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