Installing Debian after CentOS with software RAID

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11-07-2005, 05:12 AM	#1
arsham Member Registered: Mar 2004 Location: London Distribution: Arch Linux, Debian Posts: 184 Rep:	Installing Debian after CentOS with software RAID Hi there I have installed CentOS on my computer , with software RAID configured on 2 SATA harddrives ( 2X120 GB ) Now I decided to install debian on it , but the problem is I want to use my previews partition configuration , because there is noway to backup my data on current partitions ( 200 GB of data! ) there are a sort of partitions that I will format the root partition and will keep the /home partition which I have my data on But when I boot my computer with debian installer CD , I see 2 HDDs with 3 partition , and there is 2 LVG on both of the drives , but I don't know how to keep these and format the / (root) partition Please help me to solve my problem Regards Arsham

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