From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ninti Systems Subject: Re: Please review: Slackware RAID How-To Date: 17 May 2004 12:06:59 +0930 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1084761418.1963.11.camel@localhost> References: <1084290138.25942.30.camel@ws101.darkcore.net> Reply-To: office@ninti.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1084290138.25942.30.camel@ws101.darkcore.net> To: John Lange Cc: LinuxRaid List-Id: linux-raid.ids If at first you don't succeed ... Success at last, or so it seems. The new sections on lilo were quite helpful, I could have used even more hand-holding on the whole lilo thing (MBR vs root, etc), though I suppose that is a different topic really. One of my problems previously was that the box didn't have a floppy drive, so a boot disk wasn't an option for changing lilo.conf. Also, this time I formatted with mke2fs rather than letting setup do it, as you suggest. I'm wondering, is the stride=32 parameter to mke2fs necessary for RAID1 arrays? I used it anyway. If I were to suggest any new info to be included in the HOW-TO, maybe the setup of simple RAID1 with two disks could be explicitly addressed as well. Perhaps this could then lead onto RAID5 setup. Anyway, thanks a lot John, I've still got a lot to learn, but this is a great start. Mick On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 01:12, John Lange wrote: > As mentioned, I have created a Slackware RAID How-To and an initial > draft is located here: > > http://www.langefamily.ca/howto/SlackwareRaidHowTo.html > > This document covers getting Slackware installed on a system with RAID. > This technique does not require a temporary hard drive or anything other > than a Slackware boot CD. > > I am fairly new to linux software RAID so I really hope some more > experienced people will take some time to read it and give me some > feedback. I would hate to have some glaring errors inflicted on others! > > Thanks. -- -------------------------------------- Ninti Systems: Smart IT Solutions Michael Hall Mobile: 0429 095 392 Ph/Fax: 08 8953 1442 Email: office at ninti dot com dot au Web: http://ninti.com.au --------------------------------------