We're working on a patch that might make it's way into the next Slack
release. In the meantime, I can suggest you do it completely differently:
a) Make RAID bootdisk.
b) boot up and mkraid
c) modify 'setup' so it understands your md drives
d) install away as if nothing was different
e) boot with bootdisk
f) patch lilo with rh61 patch and install it again
g) much easier, no?
The patch addresses the 'setup' part and the lilo part. We'll be including
a raid-enabled bootdisk and rootdisk including new-style raidtools. What's
left to be seen is if Slack wants to kill backwards compatibility.
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> > 1-Install slack as normal, utilizing /home and /var partitions(I'm using
> > these partitions because I have very little 'play' in free space in my
> > root dir)
> > 2-install patches, recompile kernel
> > 3-tar the entire /var and /home to a backup file
> > 4-install raid(wipe /var and /home partitions)
> > 5-ensure both raid mirrors are functioning
> > 6-untar /var and /home backups to their new raid partitions
> >
> I would do the following:
>
> 1) Install everything in /
> 2) Install patches, recompile kernel
> 3) Create the two raids and make the filesystems on them
> 4) Mount the home raid to /mnt and copy everything to it
> (eg cd /home && find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt)
> 5) Unmount /mnt and mount var raid to /mnt and copy everything to it
> (eg cd /var && find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt)
> 6) Unmount /mnt and edit /etc/fstab and tell home and var are
> now /dev/md?
> 7) Reboot.
Cheers,
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