raid on a new server

[Sean]

You should be able to compile the modules (i cant remember if you can use
a custom kernel or not.) and load them. Do an _expert_ install which will
prompt you for additional drivers/modules. 

The _other_ way to do this is to install on an IDE drive first, get your
RAID going and your video running etc than move the filesystems over to
the raid drives. 

Make _sure_ you tighten that system up before putting it on the network,
im sure you have more than one kiddiescripter lurking about.

Backups are nice too, once you get the system set up. tar and tape it.
That way if you do get hacked you can go back to the original install. 
(backing up user files is a nice touch too). 
Also, take notes on what you have changed in a server log. 

Sean

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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