2012/4/24 Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>: > Ge, > > Thanks! I am afraid that will still not address the issue of how I would > partition the drive for the installation. > > Boris. > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Gé Weijers <ge at weijers.org> wrote: > >> Here's the low-tech approach: put /boot on a memory stick, and boot >> from that (assuming your BIOS can be set to boot of a USD device). >> /boot usually only get access when you do kernel updates. How about creating raid with two slices: one small (30GB) for installation and rest for data partition. Anyway, with 18TB of raid 6 might cause performance problems .. raid 60 or raid 10 looks much better solution. -- Eero