Re: RAID

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>So I'm now trying to make the notebook use RAID. Using Disk Druid during
>the install I setup a 25M boot partition, a 260M swap partition and the
>rest I'd like to be a raid partition. Is that possible? Am I thinking
>about this all wrong?

Does your laptop have more than one hard drive? I'm confused.

>I must be because when I do that then the 'Next' button is grayed out.
>When I add a root partition I'm able to select next but the 'Make RAID
>Device' is grayed out still.

To make a RAID device you need to use more than one parition.  So you'd need to
cut the remaing space in half (for mirroring), or thirds (for RAID 5).
 
>I'm missing something very fundamental here. Please kick start my
>brain.

"Kick Start"!  Uh Oh, Adam is having Amiga flash backs............ pre-emptive
multitasking, integrated DAC & ADCs,  Hi-Res graphics, Reagan's economic
policies, aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!  Whew! Don't worry, I'm OK now.

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