Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
Hi, I currently have a Gentoo server with the following disk layout: I have 3 identical hardisks doing software RAID. /boot is on md0, which is RAID1 spread across sda1, sdb1, and sdc1 swap is on md1, which is RAID5 spread across sda2, sdb2, and sdc2 / is on md2, which is RAID5 spread across sda3, sdb3, and sdc3 LVM vg0 is on md3, which is RAID5 spread across sda4, sdb4, and sdc4 vg0 has volumes for /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp, and /home I have installed grub on the MBRs of all 3 disks, so if 1 fails I should be able to boot off of one of the remaining drives. I would like to migrate this setup to Fedora FC5. Is there a HOWTO somewhere that would cover this? Will I be able to just boot off the install CD and reformat /boot and / and point to the LVM volumes and have things work? Any gotchas I need to look out for? Thanks Mike
With FC5, boot off the install CD (or DVD), select custom partitioning and you should be good to go. I have successfully installed FC-5 on LVM over software raid on two different system--boot partitions being on standard x83 partitions on /dev/hda.
FC-6 is another matter altogether as it appears there are serious problems with software raid, or sata_promise, or multipath or something as I am having problems installing on both systems. Software raid arrays are not being seen (some are, some aren't) and on one system, my SATA disks are being ignored!
-- Regards, Old Fart (my reply-to address is "munged" to defeat spambots)
