Confused about RAID on initial install

[Albin Blaschka]

John Lyon wrote:
> My box has three drives - an 80GB IDE I'd planned on using as file storage,
> and two 9GB SCSI drives I'd planned on setting up with software RAID, and
> using for the OS.
> 
> Except - it appears I can't both use RAID, and configure the SCSI drives for
> the root file system.
> 

Hello,

what's exactly your problem? Maybe a short outline how to set up RAID
via the installer may help or clarify some things:

* On a first step you have to make "normal" partitions:
  - for the partion(s) on the 80GB-Drive you chose a file-system like
    ext3
  - you will be asked for a mount point
  - you configure the partitions the drives for the raid identically: so
    one partition on drive A matches exactly a partition on drive B,
    concerning size and position
  - for the partitions for the RAID you choose "LINUX swap autodetect"
    as file-system

* This steps completed, you choose "Setup Raid"
  - you will be asked which type of RAID you want
  - how many partitions will be included in the RAID (most probably 2)
  - how many spare-partitions you want to use (most probably 0)

* You will get a list of your partitions marked with Linux swap
  autodetect

* You choose the two matching partitions which will build up a virtual
  partition
  - you will be asked for a file system (like ext3 or so...)
  - you will be asked for a mount point

* Repeat those steps for each partition in the raid, you will see those
  virtual partitions appear in the list

Done (hopefully... ;-)

Hope this helps a little bit!

Albin
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