On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Eero, I am going to look into how to create those slices; problem is, it may or may not be possible. Boris.