> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Pyziur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Need help doing it the hard way now that I've done it the easy way.
>
> I still haven't gotten a bootable system trying to follow
> Jakob �stergaard or Michael Robinton's HOWTOs. Not to fault
> either of them, I'm still two months new to installing a RAID system.
>
> I've been able to create RAID devices during installation of RH6.2
> using RAID1 and to make the system bootable using RH6.2's GUI
> install,
> but why make things easy on one self.
> ;-)
>
> Here's what I've done:
> 1 - w/ the gui I setup non-raid swap partitions on both drives (per
> recommendations of the different HOWTOs), along with the
> seven raid partitions I
> originally planned. One or two hiccups with the GUI, but it
> came together.
>
> One thing which I noticed when using the gui is that it
> forces you to use
> extended partitions. It places one partition (the /boot or
> the root, I can't
> remember) on the primary and all the rest are placed in the
> extended partition.
> The problem with the extended partition is that if you delete
> one, say the
> middle in a sequence of three, it lists the remaining two as
> adjacent.
You can work around them rather easily. Just select "use fdisk" when you
get the opportunity (I think it's just before you get to the partitioning
screen), and create the partitions how you would like them.
> E.g. you setup /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6, and /dev/hda7 on the
> extended partition,
> then if you delete /dev/hda6, the remaining partitions will be
> labelled /dev/hda5
> and /dev/hda6.
>
> Not too big of a deal, but these two issues forfeit some of
> the control
> which I'd like to have.
The way to fix the device renaming problem is to use devfs. I haven't tried
it, so I don't know how well it works, but it sounds like it should make the
care of feeding of /dev much nicer.
Greg
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