Re: RAID1 netinst CD
Hello,
W. Borgert writes:
> That message was meant for debian-boot, but didn't appear
> there, so I send it directly to you. Cheers!
>
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote:
> > Hello Paul and all,
> >
> > today I tried your iso image, but had not the time to
> > complete the installation - tomorrow I will do this. Three
> > issues until here:
> >
> > 1. I'm a RAID/MD newbie: Is there a howto or manual about
> > what every single step I have to take to realise RAID1
> > using the installer?
If you are new to md/raid, then I would recommend to play with it on an up
and running system first. Create 2 partitions same size on different disks,
a few 100 MB are perfectly sufficient. Then install mdadm and read the
docs. Search on debian-user, maybe.
briefly:
- mark the partitions as 'fd' Linux raid autodetection
- create a raid device /dev/md0 with mdadm --create (or /dev/md/0 if you
have mounted devfs)
- create a filesystem on that device like mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
- mount the new fs
monitor progress with cat /proc/mdstat
That should get you going. Once you grok that, its much simpler to deal
with it, while on limited resources.
> >
> > 2. I'm missing XFS in the file system list. Is it really
> > not there or do I have to enable this somehow?
well, it's not yet in the menu, but it seems that the sw parts are
available. So try to do it on the shell --- give the configurator something
to do, however, otherwise it will believe that it has not successfully
created and mounted file systems.
> >
> > 3. It seems that the installer uses Linux 2.4. Any chance
> > to use and install 2.6?
not yet integrated. But not a problem to boot the 2.4.24 kernel and then
upgrade after base system has been installed properly.
> >
> > Thanks for your work, I really hope it makes it soon into
> > d-i.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/
>
Also see my report on debian-boot
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200403/msg00652.html
Good luck.
I copied debian-boot CC.
Erich
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