Re: Software RAID

[Tom Spec <samag70-ignore@xxxxxxxx>]

1. When you get to the Disk Partitioning Setup screen during the installation, choose Manually Partition with Disk Druid
2. If there are already partitions on the disk delete them
3. Click RAID, choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sda (or hda) only, choose fixed size, 250 MB, and click OK
4. Click RAID, choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sdb (or hdb) only, choose fixed size, 250 MB, and click OK
5. Click RAID, choose Create a RAID device, click OK, choose /boot as the mount point, File System Type ext3, RAID Device md0, RAID Level RAID1, select sda and sdb, click OK
6. Click RAID, choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sda (or hda) only, choose Fill to maximum allowable size, click OK
7. Click RAID, choose Create a software RAID partition, click OK, select sdb (hdb) only, choose Fill to maximum allowable size, click OK
8. Click RAID, choose Create a RAID device, choose File System Type physical volume (LVM), RAID Device md1, RAID Level RAID1, select sda and sdb, click OK
9. Click LVM, click Add, create logical volumes as required (don't forget SWAP)
10. Continue the remainder of the OS installation normally

After the OS is up, you should do this do this as root to make sure both disks would be bootable:

# grub

root (hd0,0)

setup (hd0)

root (hd1,0)

setup (hd1)

          quit

Tom