just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one big mirror and then partitioning that, do i need to create my seperate partitions and then mark them as "fd" and then create each raid seperate?
i think im confusing myself here. can you partition a raid device aka /dev/md0? when i look at it in fdisk it shows the partitions of both drives (they are the same). if i partition md0 and try to write the table i get : WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. did i just set myself up for failure? or is it going to work? im doing this install remotely so i really cant reboot to see if its going to work, but i dont want to continue with the install if im just wasting my time. thats why im asking here to be sure. this is on sparc hardware, but i dont think that will make a difference. TIA Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
