On 06/03/13 02:31 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 06/03/13 02:26 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote:
Ignore the advice from Adam Wolfe - it's nonsense. Use the Debian
installer (advanced mode) to create the RAID 5 array on drives with
just one partition (whole disk) as /dev/md0. Then partition the
RAID 5 array into / and /home. Install and reboot.
If you are using Wheezy this will work directly. If you are using
Squeeze then you may need to fix the UUID in /boot/grub.cfg.
I've done this successfully several times. It just works.
Eh. I tried that too. Grub failed to install.
If grub doesn't install, then install it. Boot using the Debian
installer as a rescue CD, start the RAID array, chroot to the /
partition and install grub.
BTW: I assume you are using Squeeze which is slightly more problematic
due to the older versions of software. Wheezy works fine and I'd
recommend it for anyone's desktop. It's probably good enough for
servers at this point, but if you're looking after servers, you should
be able to handle RAID on Squeeze. :)