How to get RAID Tools

[louijp]

I want to create a home file server, so I installed Puppy on PC with a 800MHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM. I have a 30 GB Seagate hardrive for the OS, and two 500GB WD hardrives that I want to use as a RAID 1 array to save all my files.
Where do I get the raid tools to assemble my array. the array is already created with PCLinuxOS, but I want to switch to Puppy to remove the clutter.
I need mdadm to restore my /dev/md0.

Please help

a puppy newbie

[Aitch]

There's a 2007 version here, it may need an earlier puppy version, so experiment

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy//viewt ... fb58533ee8

Aitch

[louijp]

Thanks Aitch.

mdadm worked like a charm.

I'll get the source to make sure I have it handy.

Now I can just type

mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1

and now I have my RAID 1 storage back after mounting it.

Now I need to figure out how to have it automounted when I boot.

[Aitch]

as far as I can see you need to format both HDD with type = Linux raid autodetect

http://puppylinux.org/wiki/how-tos/general/raidcreation

also see

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3

http://thattallguy201.livejournal.com/34202.html

info here suggests a patched kernel [its 2005!]

http://somedec.com/downloads/howto-boot ... raid1.html

later raid5 sounds too easy.....

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... 83089.html

good luck

Aitch:)