On 1/10/06, Steve Huff shuff@vecna.org wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Matt Morgan wrote:
- Is this possible?
yes.
- If so, how? I could not figure it out despite trying what seemed
like every combination of options in disk druid.
if memory serves...
- create /dev/hda1 with type Software RAID autodetect and size 100M
- create /dev/hdb1 with type Software RAID autodetect and size 100M
- click the "RAID" button and create a RAID 1 volume, /dev/md0,
using those two partitions 4) format /dev/md0 as ext3 with mount point /boot 5) create /dev/hda2 with type Software RAID autodetect and size <the rest of the disk> 6) create /dev/hdb2 with type Software RAID autodetect and size <the rest of the disk> 7) click the "RAID" button and create a RAID 1 volume, /dev/md1, using those two partitions 8) format /dev/md1 as Logical volume 9) click the "LVM" button and create a new volume group containing / dev/md1 10) create logical volumes within this volume group as necessary (i'd recommend at least swap, /var, /)
proceed with your install. when finished, you've got one more step after you reboot; you need to copy grub onto the MBR of /dev/hdb. here are instructions:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/008898.html
somebody else may have written this up on this list before.
-steve
Thanks! I'll have a chance to try this next week and will write back with confirmation, unless someone else gets to it first.