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[Hugo Koopmans <hugo.koopmans@xxxxxxxxx>]

tx Miguel,

I did almost the same only the first boot partinion i did not do and
ran into issues getting grub to install.

what do you mean with the size 100+ for boot?
100MB woiuld that be enough?

so this means I leave the boot part on sdb1 unused right?

tx

hugo

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Miguel Veliz <miguelv06@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would forget fake raid and use software raid... Boot mint, connect
> to the internet, apt-get install mdadm, open gparted create a new
> partition table, create 100+ ext4 partition for boot, also a 4gb
> partition for swap and rest create and unformated partition, repeat
> same on both hard drives, then run mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0
> --number-drives=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 start the installer, go to
> something else, set /dev/md0 as your / partition ext4, sda1 as boot
> and both sda2 and sdb2 as swap, install boot in sda ssd... When
> install finishes, chroot your install and install mdadm, reboot and
> gtg
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 5:43 AM, Hugo Koopmans <hugo.koopmans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I just recieved my new vaio :-)
>> I would like to run mint 13 on it
>> using RAID 0 at least also looking at UEFI boot but will skipp this
>> for now (use boot legacy bios)
>>
>> so far I have created a USB iso to boot from > works ok
>> now in UEFI + HW RAID I cannot install mint 13
>> will do away with HW raid and now in process of setting up mdadmin and
>> SW raid for making the two SSD drives run in stripped RAID 0 config
>> any tips or good tutorial on this?
>>
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>> Hugo Koopmans
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Hugo Koopmans

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