On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:42 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > I have a new server to setup. 4 hard drives and I had intended it to be > > hardware raid but that's a long story. > > > > Does it make sense to set up the first two hard drives with RAID-0 > > partitions and then get through the install and then go back later and > > then create identically sized RAID-0 partitions on the other two drives > > and finally create the RAID-1 mirror from the first to the second? > > > > are we to assume that your 'long story' involves this *not* being > hardware raid? so you're setting this up with mdraid? or what? > > if mdraid, I'd probably boot the CD (or PXE) to rescue mode, use fdisk > and mdadm to partition and raid the drives as you like, then reboot the > CD/PXE into normal install mode, and install onto the md devices you > pre-created. > > oh, and you normally build two mirrors (raid1) then stripe them together > (raid0) rather than the other way around. ---- yes, mdraid OK, noted... make them in raid-1 first - I gather all of the mdadm commands will have to be done in the shell prior to install. Thanks Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.