Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:10:08PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: > One last question ... how can use the swap partitions > on both /dev/hda8 and /dev/hdc8? I did _not_ put the > swap partitions in a RAID setup. Should I simply list > both swap partitions in /etc/fstab? Thanks. Yep. You'll probably a

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Weil
One last question ... how can use the swap partitions on both /dev/hda8 and /dev/hdc8? I did _not_ put the swap partitions in a RAID setup. Should I simply list both swap partitions in /etc/fstab? Thanks. Richard --- Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It took a little bit of experimenting,

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Weil
It took a little bit of experimenting, but the basic steps you laid out worked. Success! For anyone else who might want to try this, I found I had to do two things differently: 1. I had to use mkraid instead of raidstart to get the RAID devices working on /dev/hdc. 2. After copying root and /b

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:28:46PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: > Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up > questions: > > 1. How do I get to single user mode without rebooting? > (I know I should already know this.) init 1 > 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the > partitions from /

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya to make an existing distro into a raid1 setup after the fact is a little dangerous to its data ... - backup your data first numerous ways to convert /dev/hda into raid1 with hda and hdc http://www.1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/SW-Raid-HOWTO.txt ( lots of "fun" reading...

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up questions: 1. How do I get to single user mode without rebooting? (I know I should already know this.) 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the partitions from /dev/hdaX to /dev/mdY? Once I'm in single user mode can I just "cp -R /dev/hdaX /dev/

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:32:17AM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: > I need some help setting up RAID 1 on a fresh Woody > install. The software is newer than the docs, > particularly for Lilo, so any help from those with > experience would be most appreicated. The Software-RAID-HOWTO got me through th