Hi,
This will end up being a server to host a moodle environment, so please let me know if I am setting these drives up the best way?

I have a new system and am booting off debian-6.0.4-amd64-netinst.iso (which I have burned and booting off of). I get to the point of partitioning the drives, I have 2-2TB SATA drives. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but this is what I try.
Create a new partition -
2gb - begining - physical volume for RAID
8gb - end - physical volume for RAID
10gb - beginning ""
750gb - ""
750gb - ""
480gb - ""
(respectively these would be: /boot, swap, /root, /var, /usr. /home)
I then do the same to the other hard drive, exactly. Now I go up to Configure Software RAID. Write changes, YES. Now I select Create MD Device.
RAID1
2 drives
0 spare drives
Select /dev/sda1 (2gbRAID) and also /dev/sdb1 (2gb RAID)I keep doing this until all partitions match up, click Finish. Now I select Finish partitioning and write changes, comes back there is no Root File System and to correct this. So I go back, Go to RAID1 device#1 and select the 10gb drive:
Use as Ext4 journaling file system and change the mount point to /root.
Do I need to setup the other RAID devices as /boot, etc? If so, how do I get the boot flag to ON?
Is Ext4 the way to go with the file system??

I know this is long, but I have not been able to get this system to boot properly!!

Thanx in advance, and please I am not very debian smart, so use small words

Lisa

Hi,

It's not easy on Debian...
Take a look this video on youtube. I hope it will help you out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19mqWyGidVY

Laz

I think you're going about it backwards.
You have to define the md array members first, start the array, then partition it.
That can all be done using a live cd that has the mdadm packages installed.
The only question remains (and I will look into this): can debian netinst recognize the array on boot up?
I'll try to get back to you today.

Thanx for the help,

I still am unable to get this working. I watched the video and did as they did, except I want more partitions. So I partition the drives, then Configure the RAID1, and then it says there is no root or boot or etc. So I go back and select the RAID that will be root and boot and etc. Try to write and it comes up with errors, I try to fix them but have no luck!

So, am I trying to create too many partitions?
If this is going to be a Moodle server what partitions do I really need?
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong??

Thanx again,

Lisa