Hi, Miles:
On Friday 09 July 2010 22:10:46 Miles Fidelman wrote:
Tom H wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
shell grub-install hd0
shell grub-install hd1
With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to boot in
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 13:04:27 Alan Chandler wrote:
On 06/07/10 18:15, Miles Fidelman wrote:
part2 primary Linux RAID 3G for swap
Personally. I can't see the point in using RAID for swap.
If your system is actively using swap
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Tom H wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
shell grub-install hd0
shell grub-install hd1
With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to
Kent West wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I recommend that you ignore the hardware raid and instead use software
raid. The Debian installer can set up software raid for you at system
installation time. It is easy. But it is also a little confusing.
...
It still wasn't easy, but it worked.
I
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
shell grub-install hd0
shell grub-install hd1
With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to boot in
degraded mode.
You have to set both sda and sdb to hd0 but you cannot do that in
device.map. You
Tom H wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
shell grub-install hd0
shell grub-install hd1
With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to boot in
degraded mode.
You have to set both sda and sdb to hd0 but you cannot
On 07/07/2010 11:15 AM, Kent West wrote:
On 07/06/2010 10:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I recommend that you ignore the hardware raid and instead use software
raid. The Debian installer can set up software raid for you at system
installation time. It is easy. But it is also a little confusing.
On 07/06/2010 10:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I recommend that you ignore the hardware raid and instead use software
raid. The Debian installer can set up software raid for you at system
installation time. It is easy. But it is also a little confusing.
I beg to differ with you about it
I am a RAID newb.
I have a brand-new Dell Precision T1500 workstation with two 700GB SATA
drives, pre-loaded with Windows 7.
Of course, Win7 has already been wiped off.
My goal is to have a redundant Debian (Stable) system, such that the
second drive is a mirror of the first drive. I would
On 06/07/2010 16:16, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb.
I have a brand-new Dell Precision T1500 workstation with two 700GB SATA
drives, pre-loaded with Windows 7.
Of course, Win7 has already been wiped off.
My goal is to have a redundant Debian (Stable) system, such that the
second drive is a
On 07/06/2010 10:35 AM, Michal wrote:
On 06/07/2010 16:16, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb.
I have a brand-new Dell Precision T1500 workstation with two 700GB SATA
drives, pre-loaded with Windows 7.
Of course, Win7 has already been wiped off.
My goal is to have a redundant Debian (Stable)
Kent West wrote:
I thought there was HARDWARE RAID and SOFTWARE RAID.
There is.
Not knowing anything about it, I would have thought that with
HARDWARE RAID, you'd go into the BIOS of the special
drive-controller hardware (Ctrl-I in this case, just after the
Consider this problem of using
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb.
(...)
In short, I have no idea what I'm doing, or how to do it.
First, hardware raid and software raid are two different worlds
(involving different management techniques and performance). There is
still a third raid
So..., you're saying that if I want to learn to use RAID, I should use
Windows?
I've been doing research on RAID for the past week, and none of the
documentation I've found addresses my issues.
No no, not at all. Have you tried running through a guide? A quick
search will give you
On 07/06/2010 10:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I thought there was HARDWARE RAID and SOFTWARE RAID.
There is.
Not knowing anything about it, I would have thought that with
HARDWARE RAID, you'd go into the BIOS of the special
drive-controller hardware (Ctrl-I in this
On 07/06/2010 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb.
(...)
In short, I have no idea what I'm doing, or how to do it.
Second, are you sure you need a raid setup? :-)
Nope; that's why I asked if I should go
On 06/07/2010 16:16, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb.
My goal is to have a redundant Debian (Stable) system, such that the
second drive is a mirror of the first drive. I would think RAID1 would
be the route to go.
However, being a RAID newbie, I'm running into all sorts of problems,
not
On 06/07/10 18:15, Miles Fidelman wrote:
1. start installer, go through initial steps (keyboard, network, etc.)
2. start up disk partitioner
-- create partitions - here's what I go with (but for servers) - do this
for each drive (personally, I find it easer to do this with fdisk)
part1
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:27:31 -0500, Kent West wrote:
On 07/06/2010 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Second, are you sure you need a raid setup? :-)
Nope; that's why I asked if I should go RAID or some other cloning
technique.
Is a home computer or a server/workstation? Can you (or
On 06/07/10 16:57, Bob Proulx wrote:
Kent West wrote:
partition and set mount points, the installer continues, but then won't
install grub or lilo.
I always create a separate /boot partition because I also configure
LVM and grub doesn't know how to boot off of lvm. Therefore a
separate
On 07/06/2010 11:21 AM, Michal wrote:
So..., you're saying that if I want to learn to use RAID, I should use
Windows?
I've been doing research on RAID for the past week, and none of the
documentation I've found addresses my issues.
No no, not at all. Have you tried running through a
On 07/06/2010 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote:
How do I get around the problems I'm seeing in the Debian paritioner (no
bootable flag ...
I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I let
the install create partitions
On 06/07/10 19:30, Kent West wrote:
On 07/06/2010 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote:
How do I get around the problems I'm seeing in the Debian paritioner (no
bootable flag ...
I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 13:04:27 Alan Chandler wrote:
On 06/07/10 18:15, Miles Fidelman wrote:
part2 primary Linux RAID 3G for swap
Personally. I can't see the point in using RAID for swap.
If your system is actively using swap [1], and the disk that swap resides on
fails you will
Kent West wrote:
I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I let
the install create partitions automatically, the bootable flag is set.
But if I unset it and then try to re-set it, or if I manually create
partitions, I can not set the bootable flag. It stays off.
On 07/06/2010 04:44 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I let
the install create partitions automatically, the bootable flag is set.
But if I unset it and then try to re-set it, or if I manually create
partitions, I can
ghe wrote:
I've partitioned a server disk fairly heavily, and I want to RAID1 it. I
see on the 'Net that there's such a thing as partitionable RAID
arrays. But I also read that this isn't such a good idea. Seems pretty
good to me: build an array of unpartitioned drives, and slice it up. Is
kj wrote:
ghe wrote:
I've partitioned a server disk fairly heavily, and I want to RAID1 it.
I see on the 'Net that there's such a thing as partitionable RAID
arrays. But I also read that this isn't such a good idea. Seems
pretty good to me: build an array of unpartitioned drives, and slice
I've partitioned a server disk fairly heavily, and I want to RAID1 it.
I see on the 'Net that there's such a thing as partitionable RAID
arrays. But I also read that this isn't such a good idea. Seems
pretty good to me: build an array of unpartitioned drives, and slice
it up. Is there
Hi guys,
I've had a couple of RAID boxes ticking away in the corner for years now
without a problem. But now our needs have expanded, and I'm looking to
build replacements. Big replacements. And I consider myself to be
anything but an expert in the field, especially where mdadm is
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:59:57PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hi guys,
I've had a couple of RAID boxes ticking away in the corner for years now
without a problem. But now our needs have expanded, and I'm looking to
build replacements. Big replacements. And I consider myself to be
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