Re: Software RAID using Sarge Installer

["Lucas Albers" <albersl@cs.montana.edu>]

Paul Gear said:

> The last time i tried, the installer didn't support installing to RAID /
> or /boot, and this was a topic of some discussion on this list, since
> some people think that the new installer is perfect and to think that
> other people want it to support more features is just shocking! :-)
>
> I used the HOWTO at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/rootraiddoc/ to
> convert my system to RAID 1 after the install, and it worked well.  I
> chose the 2nd path, which was GRUB & initrd (lilo didn't work for me for
> some reason).
or
http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org
I'm surprised lilo did not work, as the lilo install has been tested a lot
more then the grub install, but good to hear grub worked.

Theoretically you can install to raid from the installer, if you load raid.
I wrote that rootraiddoc and I'm not sure of the steps to install directly
from the sarge installer onto a raid system.
If anyone from the installer team has better directions or a definitive
answer on whether you can install to raid from the installer, then let me
know, and I will update the document.

-- 
--Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman