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Hi,<BR>
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Haven't used the etch installer for over a year now- however a while back I installed a new box using centos4, set up 2 raid 5 software partitions on 3 SATAs with one SATA failover (hotswap) with ease. Did the installer in the advanced hard disk partitioning section allow you to format both SATA disks as RAID? The only problem I've had in the past with setting up a RAID1 mirror is booting- lilo had trouble finding /boot filesystem on the array, so I recall using a grub boot floppy for stage one and was able to boot OK. Otherwise if you have another hard disk you can put /boot on it, then the rest of your / filesystem on the two SATAs in RAID1 mirror. Again, it should be easy to do during the installation process..<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Scott VanDusen<BR>
Tokyo <BR>
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On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 12:39 +1300, John Thomson wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I am trying to install software RAID 1 on two SATA disks using Debian Etch. There is a host of info out there, but a lot seems out of date. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does anyone here have recommendations on the best way to proceed? </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">What I've gleaned so far, is it appears to be best to do a straight forward install on one disk. Then create a RAID array using mdadm (is there an interactive way to do this, or can you only issue command line instructions). Then you copy over the info from the partitions on disk one to the second disk. After this you need to fiddle around to ensure that your system will actually boot. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Cheers,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">John</FONT>
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