Re: Help setting up software raid on RH 8.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/02/03

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    On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:30:52 +0000, Thomas A. Smith wrote:

    > I am trying to do this at install time, as I am a newbie. I am
    > attempting this based on the instructions Redhat provides in the
    > customization guide for RHL 8.0. Any other suggestions? "Davide
    > Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
    > news:blgb74$c061n$4@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de...
    >> In comp.os.linux.setup Thomas A. Smith <smith.thomas.a@comcast.net>
    >> wrote:
    >> > I am attempting to set up software raid during my installation of RH
    >> > 8.
    >>
    >> Read the RAID-HOWTO, it's clear and complete.
    >>
    >> Davide

    Tom,

    It is possible to do this at install time. I've done RAID-0, 1, and 5 at
    install time when testing various scsi & fibre-channel controllers for
    compatibility.

    You're doing a graphical install, yes?

    Use disk druid to first partition the drives and then create a raid
    device.

    Once you create a raid device in the disk druid screen, it will look to
    the installer as one drive. So in your case you would create equal sized
    partitons on all 3 drives, then click the "make raid" button, then assign
    the raid device to say "/var", then repeat the process for your other
    partitions.

    If you need more specif info then go to RedHat's site and download the
    installation PDF file.

    Or look at this HTML version of the instructions which make it pretty
    clear (although it says "RHL-9", the same technique applies to RH8):

    http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html#S2-DISKPARTITIONING-DD

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