installing a New O.S. on new raid setup-mirrored?

Question

i decided to go with the RAID -mirrored setup and (still being new ) dont' quite know how to install the OS to this config. my mobo is Asus-crosshair and i belive it has suupporting software intergrated

Answer 1

Losts of good info here

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Also this page for XP

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/mb/abit/kx7-333/raid2.htm



I have not really done a mirrored setup, I just use the RAID 0 setup which just combines the Hard Drives to make 1 drive show up in XP though the BIOS does most of the work, so installing XP or Vista on a RAID system should be just as easy as normal setup though you may need to install the drivers for the RAID drives, I believe it was F2 at the start of XP setup to install other Drivers.

I hope this helps, I know when I first did this I was a little unclear on it all, so make sure you read all ya can :)

Answer 2

A lot of Linux distributions will be RAID enabled. Try installing one of those.

Answer 3

in case you utilize the raid configuration on the MB which you're able to desire to have the two HDDs on the time of the deploy. i think there's a fashion, in force administration, in XP to create a utility raid after the OS deploy, for mirror basically.