Tru Huynh wrote:

... <mix knoppix and fc6 >

Why don't you do everything from the text/gui installation of fc6
instead of swapping distributions?

You can do everything you have said within the fc6 installer:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/sn-disk-druid.html
boot in raid1 on sda1/sdb1
swap,/ and /export as raid5 on sd{abcd}{234}
...

I don't want to do an install - I already have a working machine and don't want to loose all of my changes and configuration. I did try this as well but was unable to figure out how to break out of the installer after the disks were partitioned/formatted so I could just do a restore.

Also, I need to do a restore once the disks are assembled into the raid. If I plug my external disk in and boot it becomes sda which screws up the raid. If I plug in later in rescue mode, it isn't autodetected and I was unable to get the right modules loaded. That is why I tried knoppix.

you don't have to use LVM.


I am not using LVM. However, LVM seems to latch onto sda at boot time and keeps it busy which causes problems.

I am just surprised this is so difficult.
Michael



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