Hey Stephen,
Your two drives are running in RAID-0 acting as one 76342 MB volume. It has not changed to a RAID-1 volume, and cannot unless you delete your data and re-configure the array. There is no real advantage to using RAID-0 here, the only thing it gets you is a couple extra megs for your Redhat-ltsp install. And you don't have to re-install your windows OSes. If I was you I would remove the RAID-0 array and setup my drives like this, however it does mean re-installing windows.: C FAT16 200MB D FAT32 22G Win98/Win2000 dual boot machine E FAT32 remainder For Win98/Win2000 data storage F Dedicated Linux Drive 40G For installation of RH8.0 and LTSP Then use the GRUB boot loader to control booting to all 3 operating systems.I use GRUB to boot between FreeBSD, Redhat, and XP on my home workstation. It is quite nice. If you wanted data redundancy, you would want to purchase two more Maxtor 40GB drives. Then you could set up a RAID 0+1 array. What this essentially does is seem like two are running two large drives mirrored. Then you have a setup like this: Pri Master: Pri Slave: 40GB -> (Striped RAID-0) -> 40GB = 76324MB Array A Sec Master: Sec Slave: 40GB -> (Striped RAID-0) -> 40GB = 76324MB Array B Then you setup: Array A: 76324MB -> (Mirrored RAID-1) -> Array B: 76342MB = 76342MB Final Array with mirroring You could move to this setup without affecting your current partitioning scheme, however I bet redhat would still tell you have the same partition table problem, but you would feel better knowing your data is mirrored. There are some tidbits pertaining to your RAID setup. Additionally here is a URL with some information about the different RAID levels: http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html Hope that helps.. Now for your question about: "The partition table on /tmp/hda is inconsistent..." Maybe someone else on the list has more knowledge about this error but I have gotten this in the past on Redhat installs. I chose to continue anyway and it worked just fine on some systems. On others the system was unable to boot to redhat without a boot disk. Be sure that you make a boot disk in case it dosn't install the boot loader correctly. I say just give it a shot and see if redhat will boot... if not... then you will probably have to frag your RAID-0 array and use the 40gb drives independently. PS: LTSP is an excellent piece of work, thank you Jim and everyone else!!! Casey Dinsmore IT Director Vatyx, Inc. On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 05:29, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks for your response. > > RAID is also new me. I am running hardware RAID on a PCI controller > > From RAID configuration > > Award Software Inc. > Drive Number : 0 Maxtor 6L040J2 > Drive Number : 1 > Secondry Channel : > Drive Number : 2 Maxtor 6L040J2 > Drive Number : 3 > > Set : 1 <0,2> Sil Stripped Set <PM> 76342MB > Press F1 to delete RAID Set > Press F2 to create RAID Set > Press F3 to create Spare drive > Press F4 to resolve conflict > > Press <ESC> to exit RAID configuration utility > > When I started RAID configuration before installing Win98 and Win2K I > selected RAID-0, stripping, if my recollection being correct. I don't know > how it changes to RAID-1. > Anyway is there a remedy to change it back to RAID-0 (there is no > personal/working data on these 2 OS, Win98 and Win2K), so that I can > install RH8.0 and LTSP on Drive-E > > Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. > > Stephen Liu > > > At 01:00 PM 11/21/2002 -0500, Bruce wrote: > > From the way you have phraised it, it doesn't sound like you are running it > >in RAID-0 mode but in JBOD mode or Just a bunch of drives. thus two 40gig > >drives become 80 gigs. > >RAID-0 mode of two 40 gig hard drives means that you have 40 gigs of hard > >drive space but the information on each drive mirrors the other and both > >have MBR masterboot record where a software raid-0 if the MBR is distroyed > >your out of luck. > >As for your second problem try selecting server mode instead of workstation > >partitioning and that might alieve the error message. I have seen that work > >once selecting have the installed do it for you in redhat 7.2 or 7.3 > > > >Also I am somewhat new so find out other peoples answers befor totally > >deciding to do anything. > >I have more hardware to backup to than most people and I'm not sure what > >information you might lose as you mentioned. > > > >Bruce Gaylord (Gaillard) > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Stephen Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:05 AM > >Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Installation and partition questions > > > > > > > Hi all folks, > > > > > > I am going to install RH8.0 and LTSP on a RAID-0 box with following > >partitions; > > > (2 HDDs, each 40G) > > > > > > Drive/partition > > > C FAT16 200MB > > > D FAT32 22G Win98/Win2000 dual boot machine > > > E FAT32 48G For installation of RH8.0 and LTSP > > > F FAT32 remainder For Win98/Win2000 data storage > > > > > > I am prepared to re-partition Drive-E into 3 ext3 partitions as follows > > > > > > partition A swap 2 x RAM > > > partition B usr 40% of Drive-E > > > partition C home the rest of Drive-E > > > > > > Druid shall reside on Drive-C > > > > > > Boot up the machine with Disc-1 > > > When it comes to partition, there are 3 options > > > > > > 1) Have the installer automatically partition for you > > > 2) Manually partition with Dis Druid > > > 3) Manually partition with fdisk (experts only) > > > > > > I select 2) above and it prompted following warning : > > > > > > The partition table on /tmp/hda is inconsistent. There are many reasons > > > why this might be the case. Often, the reason is that Linux detected the > > > BIOS geometry incorrect. However, this does not appear to be the case > > > here. It is safe to ignore, but ignoring may (fixable) problems with some > > > boot loaders, and may cause problems with FAT file systems, using LBA in > > > recommended. > > > [ignore] [cancel] > > > > > > (Remark: Selecting either 1) or 3) had the same result) > > > > > > Here, I have no idea how to proceed without damaging the existing OSs on > > > Drive-C and Drive-D > > > > > > Kindly advise. > > > > > > Thanks advance. > > > > > > Stephen Liu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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