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Old 09-30-2003, 11:09 PM   #1
bluceree
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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.
 
Old 10-01-2003, 04:29 AM   #2
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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.
 
Old 10-29-2003, 12:39 PM   #3
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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.
 
Old 05-01-2004, 08:43 PM   #4
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Did you ever figure this stuff out? I'd be interested in the answer myself.
 
  


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