On Jan 10, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Matt Morgan wrote: > 1) Is this possible? yes. > 2) If so, how? I could not figure it out despite trying what seemed > like every combination of options in disk druid. if memory serves... 1) create /dev/hda1 with type Software RAID autodetect and size 100M 2) create /dev/hdb1 with type Software RAID autodetect and size 100M 3) 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 --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v