Alvin Oga said: >> I like this idea but I need help. >> A server of mine has just one 20GB drive. >> >> I have 2 spare 40GB drives. How would I make my current install on the >> 20GB work on the 40GB drives that I want to setup RAID1 on? > You can do it without risk of losing data using just debian stable. I've spent 3 weeks figuring it out in painful iterative detail. I will be posting a howto soon.
>From start to finsih I have performed the operation twice. Installed on a normal partition and converted it to raid. The second time I did it remotelly via ssh. Easy once you figure out how to do it....took me a long time to figure out how the steps. I am going to document in enough detail so you can do it from start to finish. As soon as I got it the first time I fdisked and following my initial documentation, completed the task again, to verify my documentation was correct. I used raid1, lilo, a recompiled debian kernel with raid support, and mdadm tools to perform it. It was a nightmare trying to get mkinitrd to make the initrd image with raid modules in it, I screwed around trying to get it to work for at least a week. I gave up. Don't send me any information on how to use initrd with raid, I'm sick of initrd.img. I'm rechecking my directions again, and reinstalling for the 3rd time...from scratch. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
