Michael Mol <mikemol <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Has anyone installed gentoo on ubuntu raid install? > >> > If so, your experiences? > >> I haven't tried anything that way, but is sounds like using Ubuntu as > >> a fancy bootstrap to replace the Gentoo live boot environment, and > >> seems unnecessary. Have you tried the Gentoo live DVD? It sets up the raid1 on /boot/root/swap (identical drives) really easy. Since GPTfdisk does not exist on any gentoo installation media, it sounds like the easiest (most direct path) to set up a RAID-1 gentoo workstation. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID Is this url the guide you used? Any other links? > > I did this several years ago, because I wanted a functional distro to > > work with while compiling everything, a long task with the hardware of the > > day. It's no different to using a live CD for the job, just make sure the > > tools you need are installing in the host OS before you start. I think I'm going to take the plunge. What did your partition setup look like? Can you post or send me privately a copy of the fstab used for the UUID devices, cdrom etc etc? James
