>
> True. If fact, you don't need floppies (except maybe a boot floppy)
heh... heh.... also true! But my balls aren't quite that big. I like
to be able to boot the system after I make one of the "little"
mistakes. Having a raid kernel and all the tools on a floppy make it
easier for me to sleep at night (instead of staying up fixing a down
system).
> 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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> Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR
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