In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) do a normal installation onto one of the disks you intend to use for
> your root raid array. If your disks are not the same size, DON'T use the
> smallest one.
> 2) install raid tools + raid kernel patches, rebuild and load new kernel.
> 3) create a raid 1/4/5 array with the current root disk configuread as a
> failed disk.
> 4) copy/move your configuration over to the new raid device. restart with /
> on the raid array.
> 5) raidhotadd the original installation disk to the raid array. Background
> reconstrunction starts and you get a clean raid array.
I have on more than one occasion installed the OS into a 128-512 MB
partition, build RAID tools, created an array, moved the image into
the RAID array, and then reused the original partition for swap.
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Shields.
