please describe 1st: what variant of TSL are you using? 2.2 or 3, since 3 has the new installer. 2nd: what is your experience in software raid? have you ever done one, if not, are you aware of the pitfalls of a PC bootloader? unlike a straight forward startup construction like unix workstations and servers (sparcs, powerpc, mips) x86 have a BIOS. this thing makes booting a raid one more step to learn. 3rd: are you using plain IDE drives, of an onboard controller, or scsi drives on a real heavy duty hardware? I saw recently a few proliant (P200) in a refurbish shop, 50 euro each.
Installation depends a lot what kind of hardware is used, since hardware abstraction starts later. If you have only experience outside of unix/linux, please try first with the familiar OS (e.g. FreeDOS, Windows) to get a feeling how your particular setup reacts to a missing drive on startup. If you have two seperate installations, is the bios able to boot the second drive? Then, after having verified the bios is able to do that, you can try and find out how it behaves with one installation on two drives. I have a similar setup for my SVN/asterisk server, it is a k6-400 running of 2x10GB IDE. To prevent IDE lockups, I cabled them as primary and secondary master, then partitioned them with sufficient swap partition on each (you don't want to run out of swap if a drive fails), then configure (in my setup) four software raid partitions on each (type 0xFD), then create software raid partitions for each filesystem (md1 /, md0 tmp, md2 var, md3 home). Why the numbers are not in the order as I created them? I don't know, but it works well, so I don't play with just for the numbering. Installation is as normal after creating partitions. Everything installs as usual, just progress bars sometimes seem to get stuck, since the software raid is created in the background. My installation time (minimal install with ssh, since I can install everything later from my desk, not having to be in the serverroom) having 256 or 384 MB RAM (can't remember, since for that job even 128MB would have been enough), about 30min b/c it was a network installation, fetching every rpm from a trustix mirror near me. hope that helps, and if my answers don't fit your situation, please include a better discription what you are actually doing in your post. I might not be able to respond again in that length, since I only read mailing lists when my work schedule allows me to. matthias On 12.04.2006, at 19:08, PF wrote: > Greetings! I would like to know how to do a software RAID-1 setup. > I played > around with choosing manual as a partition type and those options > but I'm > really shooting in the dark. Even if I get something working it is > possibly > not the "correct" way. I could probably also do something post- > install with > one of the generic sw raid howtos but I would prefer a step by step > how to > do this from a clean install with 2 drives. > > Any help would be very much appreciated thanks! > _______________________________________________ > tsl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
