Install Linux with NVIDIA RAID Driver 1988

following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

Don't use Parbreastion Magic for the creation of GNU-Linux parbreastions. I know it's supposed to be able to do that, but it's always best to create the GNU-Linux parbreastions from within GNU-Linux itself. Less messy... ;-)

Also, you should normally create at least two parbreastions for GNU-Linux, being one root parbreastion to hold the operating system and one smaller swap parbreastion of about 500 MB. I normally also recommend a third parbreastion for the contents of *-home.*

If you do not create this third parbreastion, the contents of *-home* will reside on the root filesystem, which is not such a good idea.

This is only partially true. As I understand it, there are three different implementations of RAID - I'm not talking of RAID levels here - being:

(1) Hardware RAID: The entire RAID'ing is set up in hardware, via the controller's BIOS. The operating system kernel sees only one drive.

(2) Semi-hardware RAID: The RAID is taken care of by a driver. This means that at boot time and until the driver is loaded, both disks will be seen as separate enbreasties. In other words, the kernel knows that there are two disks, but the rest of the system sees only one disk. This is what you have.

(3) Software RAID: You set up the two disks as a RAID array from within the operating system. You can then approach both disks as being one disk, but it's still possible to reach them separately. This is typically used so as to put individual parbreastions in a RAID set up - e.g. *-dev-hda1* is mirrored to *-dev-hdb5* while using another RAID level or no RAID at all for other parbreastions. The latter is built into the Linux kernel and theraidtoolspackage is carried by most distributions.

So what you should do is consider the drives as individual enbreasties and use the software RAID and-or LVM implementations supported in the Linux kernel. ;-)

Start off with treating the drives as individual disks, and create an identical parbreastioning layout on both disks. Set the parbreastions from both disks up as a RAID later.

Hmm... Why would this have anything to do with the hard disk itself? Unless of course you suspect that disk to be going South.

If you have stability issues, you should investigate what causes them. It's the only way to eliminate such problems... ;-)

There's no need to. Windows is a different platform, and what goes on there has nothing to do with your GNU-Linux set-up. ;-)

As above... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)