Re: Re: howto install Debian on software RAID1 when UEFI?

2022-11-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Hi hw, Having followed through the steps I outlined: > I'm about to try this on a VM with two disks. I'm going to initially partition > as if I were using LVM and all in one partition on one disk, then on the other > That should give me identically sized partitions. > At that point, I'll change

Re: howto install Debian on software RAID1 when UEFI?

2022-11-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:29:17PM +0100, hw wrote: > On Sun, 2022-11-13 at 14:32 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:49:28PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > the Debian installer is horrible.  It won't let me install on software > > > RAID1 > > > on > > >

Re: howto install Debian on software RAID1 when UEFI?

2022-11-13 Thread hw
On Sun, 2022-11-13 at 14:32 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:49:28PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > the Debian installer is horrible.  It won't let me install on software RAID1 > > on > > a server with an UEFI BIOS.  I can't find any good guide about that, either

Re: howto install Debian on software RAID1 when UEFI?

2022-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:32:06PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you partition both disks to have an EFI partition at the beginning, then > a RAID partition, then 2 x 1G swap at the end. > > Then use the RAID manager to set up RAID1 and LVM over the top. I'm unsure how > you would i

Re: howto install Debian on software RAID1 when UEFI?

2022-11-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:49:28PM +0100, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > the Debian installer is horrible. It won't let me install on software RAID1 > on > a server with an UEFI BIOS. I can't find any good guide about that, either. > Hi hw You might want to *start* with using the expert install - fo