Re: Installation to software RAID
Jurij Smakov <jurijus@theophys.kth.se> writes:
> On 29 Nov 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> [skipped]
> > It's absolutely not yet supported -- partly because it's not so easy
> > (esp if root is a RAID device), and partly because potato included
> > rather old raid-tools.
> [skipped]
>
> Hmmm, from RAID-Howto it seems, that there is no problem with RAID being
> a root device.
Sure, but it's just tricky to manage from our (boot-floppies)
perspective, since you need to use initrd to load the RAID stuff, and
then mount root.
> Besides, if there is such thing as Live! CD-ROM (which I've
> never heard about) it would be quite simple to run Debian off it, create
> RAID, partition it and then start the installer.
Fine, but that's not part of mainstream boot-floppies.
> Booting is a more complicated issue though, but also manageable (I
> think).
Are you volunteering?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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