Quoting Erich Waelde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > > > 1. I'm a RAID/MD newbie: Is there a howto or manual about > > > what every single step I have to take to realise RAID1 > > > using the installer? > > If you are new to md/raid, then I would recommend to play with it on an up > and running system first. Create 2 partitions same size on different disks, > a few 100 MB are perfectly sufficient. Then install mdadm and read the > docs. Search on debian-user, maybe. > > briefly: > - mark the partitions as 'fd' Linux raid autodetection
That was clear to me already, because of the error message (two steps later in d-i). I just went back into fdisk and changed it. > - create a raid device /dev/md0 with mdadm --create (or /dev/md/0 if you > have mounted devfs) Do I need to edit /etc/raidtab.conf or any other file? If so, does d-i help there? > - create a filesystem on that device like mkfs.xfs /dev/md0 OK, > - mount the new fs > monitor progress with cat /proc/mdstat > > That should get you going. Once you grok that, its much simpler to deal > with it, while on limited resources. Yes, thanks for the hint. Anyway, if the md/raid stuff becomes part of d-i, there should be a step-by-step intro in the d-i manual, esp. for people who are new to mdadm and friends. > > > 2. I'm missing XFS in the file system list. Is it really > > > not there or do I have to enable this somehow? > > well, it's not yet in the menu, but it seems that the sw parts are > available. So try to do it on the shell --- give the configurator something > to do, however, otherwise it will believe that it has not successfully > created and mounted file systems. I will try that, thanks. > > > 3. It seems that the installer uses Linux 2.4. Any chance > > > to use and install 2.6? > > not yet integrated. But not a problem to boot the 2.4.24 kernel and then > upgrade after base system has been installed properly. No, not really a problem, but it would be nice to use 2.6 in d-i, if one is going for 2.6 anyway. If there are problems with 2.6 they show up immediately, which might be better or not. Thanks for your help! One remaining question: Does anybody know whether the md/raid stuff is/will be included into "official" d-i? Plans? Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
