[lug] Slackware 8.1 RAID setup-howto

[Harris, James]

Sorry for not post commenting on this one, but I want to keep things clean.
Two things:

1) EBOLA-rulez, (please, show your name, spam is a way of life) when post
commenting on a message as such in the future, please do something to help
distinguish the forwarded or replied-to part of the message and your own
comments.  For a few moments, it appeared as though you had just posted my
original message with no comments at all, which I momentarily found
offensive.

2) Unfortunately, I never wrote the how-to.  No one showed _any_ interest
and I didn't see the time justified as a result.  I love to give back to the
community when I can, but unfortunately the time required to write such a
how-to was greater than I had available back then.  Now, booting RAID on
slackware is a heck of a lot easier since 8.1 was released.

I've since stopped using Slackware regularly <getting teary-eyed>, but could
provide suggestions on how to do it with 8.1  I've booted it up and checked
what's available and all of the tools and kernel support are there.  You'll
just have to do some manual footwork before running setup, but it should be
a heck of a lot easier.  Please let me know if you'd like me to review the
process and I'd be happy to run through it (let's hear it for vmware.)

Regards,
Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EBOLA_rulez [mailto:aurimas_f at ktv.lt] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 06:20
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Slackware 8.1 RAID setup-howto
> 
> 
> hi lug,
> 
> Howdy All!
> 
> I've recently built a few Slackware 7.1 based servers that 
> required software
> mirrored boot disks and filesystems and am tossing around the idea of
> sharing my experience.  I used the Software RAID HOWTO to 
> help me through
> it, but obviously had to engineer a lot of the retrofitting 
> of RAID into
> Slackware myself.  The existing HOWTO is broad on this topic and only
> provides insight on how to retrofit a system that's already installed.
> 
> I've had a couple of friends ask me how I did it and I'm 
> wondering if it
> would be worth my time to put the process into an "official" 
> mini-HOWTO.
> Would anyone here be interested in reading/criticizing it of 
> I did put one
> together?  Would anyone specifically like to see me put one together?
> 
> I'll probably put something together regardless, since my friends are
> bugging me, but I just thought I would pass it through the 
> group and see if
> there's any interest in having me put something official 
> together.  I'd kind
> of like to give back to the Linux community, so please let me know if
> there's any interest.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Harris
> 
> If you hve already written this mini-HOWTO, it would be great if you
> could share
>   
> 
> -- 
> Respect,
>  EBOLA_rulez                          mailto:aurimas_f at ktv.lt
> 
> 
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