On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the > scheme below on old Tyan S2895 with two dual-opteron and two new > Maxtor 250GB, before moving to the new machine. With the recent amd > installer, I tried to set up (manually) the two partitions on both > disks to set up raid1. > > First, I tried with a 0.2GB partition for boot but I found no way to > have lvm for the other partition and where to set the root file > system. > > Then, I tried with a 1GB partition but found no way to have it for > both boot and root. from memory but the outline of who I install Create 3 paritions 1 2 3 on sda and sdb of 500M 10G (this is going to be raid1) the rest of the hard drive select all the partitions to be a raid device configure raid md0 = sda1 sdb1 md1 = sda2 sdb2 md2 = sda3 sdb3 select md0 as type ext2 mount /boot select md1 as type ext3 mount / select md2 as type lvm device configure lvm ... create your lvm partitions .... select each one and specify fs type and mount point then proceed > > In both cases, the installer claimed to have the root file system. > > What I need to have for the compilations of applications are /home > /usr /opt /var /swap. The bad way I used previously, was to start from > these partitions and put each on raid. So I finished with so many > raid#. > > thanks > francesco > > > [snip] -- "Justice ought to be fair." - George W. Bush 12/15/2004 Washington, DC speaking at the White House Economic Conference
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