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[Miguel Veliz <miguelv06@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did mine 300MB but that is overkill.. 100-150 should be enough... Yes i
did leave sdb1 unused, you can set a raid1 between sdb1 and sda1 but i just
didnt feel the need for it..

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Hugo Koopmans <hugo.koopmans@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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>
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- Miguel Veliz