Re: Install questions with RAID

2011-08-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.08.2011 16:50, schrieb Alex: > Hi, > >> Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device. >> Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX >> GB raid autodetect. >> Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device >> containin

Re: Install questions with RAID

2011-08-09 Thread Alex
Hi, > Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device. > Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX > GB raid autodetect. > Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device > containing /boot and use the second partition on each

Re: Install questions with RAID

2011-08-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device. Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX GB raid autodetect. Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device containing /boot and use the second partition on each drive to create

Re: Install questions with RAID

2011-08-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 19:21 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:49 -0400, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk > > installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I > > don't expect to ever need to grow or resi

Re: Install questions with RAID

2011-08-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:49 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk > installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I > don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions. > I'd like to create a RAID5 array f

Install questions with RAID

2011-08-08 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions. I'd like to create a RAID5 array from the four disks in the server. I understand RAID isn'