Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm

["Christoph Pleger" <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de>]

Hello,

> Configure the LSI to present individual disks and then use mdadm
> the normal way: partition the disks into two sets, a small /boot
> partition and a large /. (Or three partitions per disk: /boot, /
> and /home.)
>
> Create mdadm pairs for each of sda1,sdb1  sda2,sdb2  sda3,sdb3
> ... and set /dev/md0, for /boot, as bootable. The Debian
> installer can handle all of this easily.

Isn't it possible to use mdadm for mirroring disks as a whole, instead of
single partitions?

I am not using the debian installer, but want to boot from network with an
NFSROOT, create a basic system on the RAID and then reboot from RAID.

Regards
  Christoph