On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:32 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > I have a system I'm trying to rebuild. I have four 160 Gig WD drives all > of the exact model. I want to install FC5 using two drives and mirror to > the other two drives(I don't have a hardware IDE controller for > mirroring). I'll probably use LVM since I really want it to show up as > one big drive, ie approx 320 gig. > > The problem I'm having is I can't get the system to boot off anything to > run the setup. I've tried two types of external DVD's (basically > external enclosures) and although the boot menu sees the DVD drives, it > refuses to boot of them. > > I've also tried a flash drive, based on suggestions from another thread, > but I can't get it to boot off the boot.iso that is setup on the flash > drive. (dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/[flash drive]) > > Short of booting like this, can I setup the install on two of the drives > with the other two unplugged and a DVD temporarily plugged in? Then, > after the install, remove the DVD drive, plug in the remaining hard > drives, and then go in and somehow setup mirroring? > Found a place that had a way to create 6 boot floppies for kicking off the install. Works great. James
