True. If fact, you don't need floppies (except maybe a boot floppy)
if you don't mind losing a partition. I.e., have a regular partition
for the initial install, form the raid from the other partitions, copy
the files over (cp -a /usr /home ..) to the raid, update the raid's
/etc/fstab, then reboot with the raid as the root partition, and run
lilo. I've done this a few times with VA Linux boxes. Pretty easy if
the raid kernel and tools are ready and up to date (as they are under
VA Linux).
Phil
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:06:27PM -0800, Michael wrote:
> > If you're only installing RAID "later", you must realize that you
> > will not be able to apply RAID to the existing data on your drives;
> > you will only be able to 'raidify' empty partitions, unless you
> > reinstall RedHat and use their new HA Disk Druid capabilities.
> >
>
> That is an oversimplification. It is not at all difficult to upgrade
> an existing system to raid, it only takes the added disks, a new
> kernel and an appropriate tools floppy to do the trick. This is true
> of ANY linux system that supports raid.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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