On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:05 PM, R.Kanagaraj (RK)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am planning to install CentOS 5.5 in a machine that has 2X500GB SATA Hard
> disks. I need to configure RAID 1 (software RAID) the machine is a normal
> corei3 desktop machine which has no RAID controller. I am planning to
> install this server for productive purpose.

For production systems, you should consider server class hardware.

> So please guide me how to
> configure software RAID. so that even if one hard disk fails then the
> machine has to boot from the next hard disk and the data should remain in
> that.

The CentOS installer has options to use the two disks as part of
software RAID1.  A couple of trial installs should give you a pretty
good idea of what is involved.

-- Arun Khan
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