Re: Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:09:29AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > running root on raid5 is tricky stuff... > - i think is a bad idea... ( just silly me ) Hardware or software? I'll run hardware RAID any time I can afford it on all the disks, thanks ... catastrophic data loss can still be preven

Re: Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya daniel running root on raid5 is tricky stuff... - i think is a bad idea... ( just silly me ) - - if you lose your system... you also lose data... - - if data is on raid5... if the system dies... - you can still recover and continue with a new

Re: Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:58:45PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > We are planning to by a server with 3 scsi drives and a dpt 2100s raid > controller. > I am quite confused about how I should set the thing up to get Debian > running. > Will Potato's boot disks recognise the raid controller? >

Re: Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi daniel if the boot disks recognizes your controller... consider yourself very lucky... - you can make your root raid5 system if you like... ( good and bad )... - tricky business to get root raid5 working properly... if you only have 3 disks1/3 of your disk space i

Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
We are planning to by a server with 3 scsi drives and a dpt 2100s raid controller. I am quite confused about how I should set the thing up to get Debian running. Will Potato's boot disks recognise the raid controller? If I use the three drives in a Raid5 array can I boot off it? Should I have a for