Re: Installation to software RAID
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:51:33AM -0500 , Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 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.
not when using new persistent RAID as found it 2.4 and in mingo's patches.
it just needs partitioning and running mkraid (don't remember exactly) and it
created the md device and you're off installing. But I don't volunteer to do
it.
Petr Cech
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