Software Raid--mandrake.
 

Hello all, got 4x 47gb scsi drives hooked up with mandrake 9.0

How on earth do set them up to run as a RAID 5 configuration?

SPeed isn't THAT important, so software RAID5 shouldn't be a problem.

Can someone point me in the direction of a STEP BY STEP GUIDE FOR LINUX RAID NEWBIES?

thanks.

The Linux Documentation Project, great place to FTFM (Find the f*** manual!)

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Hope this helps,

Darren.

Ok, but

can someone direct me to a MANDRAKE SPECIFIC RAID INSTALLATION GUIDE for BRAND NEW SYSTEM.

I have 4 47gb seagate Ultra SCSI drives on an Adaptec AAA-133 card (3 channel Ultra Scsi Raid card.

I put in Mandrake CD, boot up, all drives detected OK.

If I let Mandrake automatically pick what drive to install on, it only formats the First drive and does nothing to the others.

So I choose Expert Mode. Of course, I'm no expert.

In Expert Mode I can choose a TON of options. Once I choose to create a partition on a drive, I can choose TYPE: Linux RAID.

What exactly does this do? is it RAID 0, 1, 5 ?

What exactly does a correct Linux RAID 5 setup look like interms of formatted drives,

like
/
/swap
/usr
/????

also, if I choose all drives to be Linux RAID, it makes gives all drives a different mount point:

2nd drive is /var
3rd is like home/xxx i forget
4th is like home/xxx2 i forget name

please help me out---this is really just Mandrake specific.

I'm installing Mandrake 9.0 (I'll update it when it's installed)

thanks for your time.

Did you ever figure this stuff out? I'd be interested in the answer myself.