Ghane, I suggest using a Hardware RAID. I use ARCOIDE raid 1 controller (www.arcoide.com) on a couple of my machines. It's really easy to use and it's fast. In fact when I started using this product my hard drive usage actually visibly lowered (don't ask me why.) They are supposed to be a couple ATA-66 controllers on the market that are actually FASTER than UW SCSI drives, but I have yet to find one.
At all cost avoid promise controllers. I was using one of these in a NT machine and it corrupted data without warning for 2 weeks. During those two weeks my backups also contained corrupted data (monthly, weekly, and daily.) When the system finally crashed from data corruption I was left without a backup. Luckily I was able to restore most of the data using my keen skills :) I'm also using RAID controllers from cru (www.cruinc.com), and Adaptec. I like the Arco controllers the best. -----Original Message----- From: Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 8:11 PM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Debain on a RAIDed partition Folks, I would like to install my / partition on a mirrored (RAID 1) partition. I know how to do RAID _after_ an install, for user data, but at install time? Any pointers? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]