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William Tasso

2006-11-02, 7:13 am

Greetings

System contains 3 HDD units (IDE)

o/s will be debian stable

planning on installing the o/s and ancilliaries on one HDD partition as
per my normal build plan.

The remaining two drives are to be combined to provide one logical storage
device. This is the bit I'm not sure about.

Tell me please, what is the 'debian way' to produce the desired result?

Thanks for reading.
--
William Tasso
Bill Marcum

2006-11-02, 1:12 pm

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:28:34 -0000, William Tasso
<spamblocked@tbdata.com> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> System contains 3 HDD units (IDE)
>
> o/s will be debian stable
>
> planning on installing the o/s and ancilliaries on one HDD partition as
> per my normal build plan.
>
> The remaining two drives are to be combined to provide one logical storage
> device. This is the bit I'm not sure about.
>
> Tell me please, what is the 'debian way' to produce the desired result?
>

RAID and/or LVM.


--
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pr0f3ss0r1492@yahoo.com

2006-11-02, 1:12 pm

William Tasso wrote:
> Greetings
>
> System contains 3 HDD units (IDE)
>
> o/s will be debian stable
>
> planning on installing the o/s and ancilliaries on one HDD partition as
> per my normal build plan.
>


>
> Tell me please, what is the 'debian way' to produce the desired result?


Usually, download and burn a debian-installer cd, boot from it and
follow instructions. That's the Debian way

> The remaining two drives are to be combined to provide one logical storage
> device. This is the bit I'm not sure about.


I am confused. What do you want to do? Join the two disks? Why? Just
let the installer recognize the disk and offer you an installing
option. If you are not ahappy with that, you can select "Guided
partitioning from the menu".

Ottavio

Jeremy Boden

2006-11-02, 7:13 pm

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:03 -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:28:34 -0000, William Tasso
> <spamblocked@tbdata.com> wrote:
> RAID and/or LVM.


I would question the RAID - unless it's done by hardware.

--
Jeremy Boden


William Tasso

2006-11-03, 7:13 am

William Tasso <spamblocked@tbdata.com> wrote:

> ...
> The remaining two drives are to be combined to provide one logical
> storage device.


Thanks chaps - LVM does the job just fine.

--
William Tasso
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