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.
|