Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/21/2012 05:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I have moved raid sets to other machines (of similar distribution >> revs) and never had a problem before. > > I wouldn't expect you to.  If you move volumes other than the boot > volume, it doe

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-21 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:20:00PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/19/2012 01:30 PM, fred smith wrote: > > and somewhere in the last few days (in this list I think) someone posted > > that Anaconda should detect the existing raid array and allow you to re- > > use it for a new install. > > > >

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2012 05:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I have moved raid sets to other machines (of similar distribution > revs) and never had a problem before. I wouldn't expect you to. If you move volumes other than the boot volume, it doesn't matter that they get a new device name. > In fact I have f

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/19/2012 01:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I tried to boot a 5.x system with several raid1 sets with a 6.0 live >> dvd and not only did it not detect/match up the mirrors, it renamed >> and broke them so they no longer worked on 5.x.  I

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/19/2012 01:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I tried to boot a 5.x system with several raid1 sets with a 6.0 live > dvd and not only did it not detect/match up the mirrors, it renamed > and broke them so they no longer worked on 5.x. I think there are > major differences in the way the kernel han

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/19/2012 01:30 PM, fred smith wrote: > and somewhere in the last few days (in this list I think) someone posted > that Anaconda should detect the existing raid array and allow you to re- > use it for a new install. > > so just as an experiment, I booted up the 6.2 DVD (not live) and took it >

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/20/2012 03:57 AM, fred smith wrote: > this was NOT the live dvd: Yeah, sorry, I misread it, probably readit too fast, skiping parts. Yesterday there was 58 centos-users mails waiting for me, so... -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Moth

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-19 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:14:16AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/19/2012 10:30 PM, fred smith wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > One of these days I'm going to upgrade my centos 5.7 box (which is > > currently configured with raid-1 on two drives) to 6.x. > > > > i've been given to believe that

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-19 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/19/2012 10:30 PM, fred smith wrote: > Hi all! > > One of these days I'm going to upgrade my centos 5.7 box (which is > currently configured with raid-1 on two drives) to 6.x. > > i've been given to believe that I should be able to do a fresh install > on top of the existing raid setup, i.e.,

Re: [CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM, fred smith wrote: > Hi all! > > One of these days I'm going to upgrade my centos 5.7 box (which is > currently configured with raid-1 on two drives) to 6.x. > > i've been given to believe that I should be able to do a fresh install > on top of the existing raid set

[CentOS] doing a new install on top of existing software raid-1

2012-01-19 Thread fred smith
Hi all! One of these days I'm going to upgrade my centos 5.7 box (which is currently configured with raid-1 on two drives) to 6.x. i've been given to believe that I should be able to do a fresh install on top of the existing raid setup, i.e., without having to re-create the raid array, but just u