Re: RH 8 RAID 1 question

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

I finally figured it out, but I didn't use LVM.  Excellent!  I will
use it next time.  Man!  No wonder Sun had to start licensing
Veritas!  :-)

--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:10:00PM -0700, Robert Threet wrote:
> > Has anyone ever tried to use the Red Hat GUI to create software
> RAID
> > 1?
> 
> If you are installing Red Hat 8, you probably want to use LVM +
> software RAID.  Basically you just need to create a 100MB partition
> on
> each disk.  Set the type to "software RAID".  Then hit the RAID
> button, select the two partitions, and make that your /boot.  Next,
> make another software RAID partition on the remaining space on each
> disk and format it "physical volume".  Then hit the LVM button and
> start creating logical volumes for your other filesystems.  Make
> them
> whatever size you think you'll need...  It's trivial to resize them
> later.
> 
> One important thing...  You can't seem to do LVM in the text
> install,
> which is why I don't have screenshots and such to explain the
> procedure...  The GUI installer won't start up in VMware.  :-/
> 
> Steve
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