raid on a new server

[Mike Rambo]

Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Mike Rambo <mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us> writes:
>
> > I was thinking I'd put /boot, /, and the swap space on sda with
> > /var & /usr on sdb - then raid the rest of both drives for
> > /home.  The only way I know to accomplish this is with the GUI
> > install of RH6.2 (I've successfully done it once before that
> > way), the text install doesn't appear to support raid.
>
> Why not install using the text install, then set up /home as raid
> by hand using mdutils?  That's more or less the way I originally
> set up my (Debian) system.  Should work fine.

I'm new enough that I didn't know there *were* any mdutils.  I'll
look for some man pages.  I assume that you probably leave the space
that'll eventually be the raid device unallocated when the initial
install is done?