SMP and RAID (Recommendations for beginner installer)

[Clive Menzies]

On (01/03/06 12:12), John Lyon wrote:
> I'm taking delivery of a dual proc box, with two 9GB scsi hard drives. I'm
> wondering, as a beginner, if there's anything in particular regarding SMP or
> software raid that I should be aware of as I work through the install.
> 
> I've decided to put the OldWorld Mac G3 on the back burner for now.

The scsi drives are no problem (SATA can be a little tricky) but booting
off software RAID requires some work.  I put some notes up with some
good links on booting from RAID:

http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/FileServer_Install_manual.php
http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/
http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid
http://xtronics.com/reference/SATA-RAID-Debian.htm

Installing an smp kernel after install should be trivial although I had
problems with the RAID trying to assemble before the SATA modules were
loaded with some kernels.  I wouldn't have thought it would be a problem
with scsi.

Regards

Clive

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