on 6/24/00 10:17 PM, James wrote:
> We've got a Poweredge 2400 and the RAID was setup with 4GB boot and the
> other 104GB were divided in half and mirrored. We've outgrown the 50
> user NT license, so we put mandrake on it. The only problem is that
> linux is just treating it as two large partitions. How do I set up a
> mirror. We are doing nightly back-ups, but if something major happens,
> it's much easier to switch drives. Also, in NT there was a way of
> setting the updating of the mirror. Is this possible in Linux as well?
>
diskdrake will help you set up a raid graphically
here are some links to get you started
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html
raid mailing liost archive:
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/57/0/
Gavin
