Topic: disable raid - 7.0 beta 5

[gedaso]

I've been running SME6.01 happily with two IDE drives in software raid1.  For a jolly I thought I'd upgrade to 7.0b5 and while I was at it, trash the old raid setup and return to two individual drives.

The info on the drives was backed up, so I deleted all partitions/volumes via fdisk and started installing 7.0.

I seem to recall when installing 6.01 that it prompted me about converting my two hard drives to a raid1 array.  But not with 7.0 - it seems to do a raid autodetect and doesn't give me any choice in the matter.  Is this by design in 7.0 or something still being worked on ?  Do I have any options to avoid a raid setup (other than physically disconnecting the 2nd drive during installation) ?

thanks.

[gordonr]

Is this by design in 7.0 or something still being worked on ?  Do I have any options to avoid a raid setup (other than physically disconnecting the 2nd drive during installation) ?

Yes, it is by design. If you would like to do something different, either disable the second drive during the install, or create a custom KickStart configuration file.

[daniel_n]

Is this by design in 7.0 or something still being worked on ?  Do I have any options to avoid a raid setup (other than physically disconnecting the 2nd drive during installation) ?

Yes, it is by design. If you would like to do something different, either disable the second drive during the install, or create a custom KickStart configuration file.

Is this possible with smeserver 7? I thought version 7 no longer uses kickstart files.

If it is possible can you tell me if there is any documentation regarding kickstart.

[gordonr]

Is this possible with smeserver 7? I thought version 7 no longer uses kickstart files.

If it is possible can you tell me if there is any documentation regarding kickstart.

Yes, we no longer use Kickstart files, but you should be able to if you want to. As far as I know we haven't broken that support, and if we have, please let us know via the bug tracker (but check the same thing on CentOS 4.2 first please).

Google is your friend for Kickstart doco (try "kickstart RHEL"):

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kickstart2.html

BTW: I think the simplest solution is to disconnect the second drive. You will get a one-way RAID on the working drive, You can then add the other drive after the install, possibly as another one-way RAID. This provides flexibility to mirror them at a later stage.

Please also note that any such non-standard installations may break with later upgrades. It's impossible for us to support all such customisations, especially as we don't know what they are