On 01/19/2012 10:30 PM, fred smith wrote: > Hi all! > > One of these days I'm going to upgrade my centos 5.7 box (which is > currently configured with raid-1 on two drives) to 6.x. > > i've been given to believe that I should be able to do a fresh install > on top of the existing raid setup, i.e., without having to re-create > the raid array, but just use the existing setup. > > and somewhere in the last few days (in this list I think) someone posted > that Anaconda should detect the existing raid array and allow you to re- > use it for a new install. > > so just as an experiment, I booted up the 6.2 DVD (not live) and took it > as far as where it sets up the partitioning. So, was I unduly surprised > when it DID NOT detect the existing raid? well, a little. more in the > category of NOT ENTIRELY PLEASED, actually. > > I'd appreciate it if someone who knows something about linux hardware > raid, and its intersection with Anaconda, could drop a few clues in my > direction. > > thanks in advance! > Are you sure LiveDVD has mdadm service installed and running? LiveCD 5.3 was missing it, I have not looked at 6.x yet. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant