On 1/10/06, Steve Huff <shuff at vecna.org> wrote: > > 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 Thanks! I'll have a chance to try this next week and will write back with confirmation, unless someone else gets to it first.