On 12/08/14 15:59, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 03:22:13PM -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>> I have a computer with two WD 750G disks and Scientific Linux
>> release 7.0 (Nitrogen) installed from SL Live. I simply used the
>> install option that appeared after booting it. It asked about the
>> disks to be used and I selected both and checked the boxes for a
>> RAID-1 install assuming that it would format the the drives as
>> necessary. Was I wrong?
> I confirm that SL6 is easy to install on mirrored (RAID1) disks,
> but you have to use the "manual/custom partitioning" mode. Early
> releases of SL6 had problems with installing the boot loader,
> but SL6.5/6.6 is all good.
>
> I have not tried SL7 yet.
>
> I do not understand why the SL installer does not have an easy to use
> button for "I have two identical disks, please mirror (RAID1) them for me!".
>
> But still, the SL installer is better than the Ubuntu installer,
> where the option for creating RAID volumes (and thus installing to mirrored disks)
> has been removed on purpose (it *is* present in the "server installer").
>
>> I ask because the resulting install is not what I expected.
> It is the expected result - computers never do what you expect them to do.
> They only do what the programmers have programmed them to do.
>
I eventually got it working, running Samba and loaded the data back on 
to it that I had saved from Freenas, which I gave up on. Need to do some 
more checks from the Apple devices but it seems to work with the iPod I 
have for testing.

I had tried Fedora 21 Server, had a lot of help on the Fedora User List, 
much trouble with the installer and popped in the SL-7 Live disk and got 
it to work with that help ... My problem is the anaconda installer 
colors, I'm sure they look pretty to the developer but gray text on 
off-white or orange is near impossible for me to see. I normally read 
white on black easily enough, old age is tough.

Actually the installed is about the same for SL-7 as recent Fedora 
versions and I've used it enough now that I can usually deal with it. 
Problem was I had to set up the raid file system first, fdisk alone was 
not sufficient. Once that was done it was a matter of learning a few 
things about the installer. As you say it works well enough once understood.

Thanks for your comments,

Bob.

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