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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:00:24 +0100, dave morgan <morgad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:59:45 +0100, Simon Waters ><simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>dave morgan wrote: >>> >>> I am putting together a replacement for my current >>> webserver+workstation, and have managed to end up with one IDE >>> disk, and one SATA one (both 250Gbyte). >>> >>> Can I still use these to install Debian v4 with the disks >>> configured as (software) RAID-1 ? And can I then use LVM on top >>> of this to handle the filesystem? >> >>Yes, Yes. >> >>http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/512 > >Thanks Simon, >let's see if I can do the install on this machine "properly", >rather than the bodges I have used on previous machines :-) > >Dave Well, I think I managed it :-) but I did not touch the command line at all. What I did was (roughly) like this - boot Debian installer in gui-expert mode (I could not find any way to setup raid in non-expert mode) partition the two disks identically with small partition for /boot, and rest for lvm set up the two pairs of partitions as md0 (/boot), md1 (lvm) from the raid setup menu set up lvm in the md1 area with swap and root areas. I then setup up md0 as /boot. I wasted ages here trying to set up format and mount point for /boot before I had done the root partition. And every time I left the set up the other partitions it forgot about the boot one :-/ format the partitions, install Debian packages, and let grub setup the boot sector it seems that this magically sets up the boot sector on both disks :-) so when I turned off booting from the 1st disk in the Bios and let it boot from the second it still worked (raid is still good) I am now downloading 70Gb of data from the old to new machine (at 3Mb/sec) and things are looking good at the moment. But I have still to set up Apache or Samba on the new machine yet. best regards Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html