> > and while you're at it setup your discs so you have 2 complete and >> distinct installations simultaneously. that way the next time around you >> can install the next before/without overwriting what's working. >> > > I have no idea how to do that. > > i have 2 discs and build raid1 sets by setting the 2 discs up with >> identical partitions, on each disc i put two 300mb boot partitions, two >> 10gig swap partitions, and the rest of the space equally divided between >> two lvm partitions. >> > > I wouldn't know how to do that, either. > > Suppose I have two 3 TB disks, sda and sdb and I just want RAID1 with 300 > MB /boot, 32 GB swap and the rest in /. How do I do it? > in the installer choose "manual" partitioning, delete existing partitions, on sda create a 300mb partition (for /boot), another 300mb partition (for /boot for a second installation), a 32gb partition (or however much swap you want), another 32gb partition (for swap a second installation), a partition given half all remaining space (for lvm), another partition given the remaining space (for a second lvm). then do all the same on sdb. i don't remember which installer has a feature to do that in one stroke. (someday perhaps an installer will be enhanced to make use of partitionable raid, if available presumably that would make this process even easier.) then create your raid1 sets, matching one partition from sda and one from sdb for each set, a 300mb raidset, specify it to be for /boot, a 32gb raidset, specify it to be for swap, an lvm raidset, within which you create a logical volume of whatever size you want for / no need to bother to make raidsets of the second set of partitions yet, just be happy they're the salt you didn't put into the stew. the installer should just do the right thing by itself re GPT, partition types, and aligning and spacing of partitions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150904/a610ee94/attachment.html>