Thanks Greg for your promptness. Yes, I am, and in fact succeeded in setting up the software raid 1 in Debian/New 2.6. I messed up while matching the partitions and did not quite understand the error message; impatience or what. But now everything is clear. Yes, nothing has changed as far as partitioning each drive separately goes, but why with different file systems? I know nothing about hardware raids. Anyway, I dug my self out of the ditch and found out what was the problem; one needs to be careful when checking things with the space bar since speakup "read line" command will miss that asterisk in front of the designated line, so we need to verify it with the char-by-char navigation. And that thing is now working! Thanks for the site as well! Cheers! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 12:05 AM Subject: Re: raids > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > You need to make the mount point be something other then / for 1 of the > drives, you can't put 2 partitions on the same mount point, like that > message box says. > > Also, from the subject of your message, and based on what you told us > in your first post, you're setting up a raid. I don't know if it's > software or hardware, and I also haven't used software raid since the > 2.4.x kernels. So, I stand to be corrected, but if you're setting up > software raid under gnu/linux, partitioning the drives individually, > with separate file systems, is > not the way to do it, unless things have drastically change since I > did it, which I doubt is the case. You should be able to find the > software raid howto on tldp.org, and I suggest that you read that, if > you're in fact setting up software raid. > > Greg > > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:57:14PM -0700, Ned Granic wrote: >> Thanks folks for the help with hardware. >> >> Then, I came to a halt again! >> Manually partitioning the disks: >> After matching the partitions from hda (master) and hdb (slave), and >> clicking on "finish and write changes to disk", the following error pops >> up: >> >> <box> >> partition disks: >> identical mount points for two file systems. >> Two file systems are assigned the same mount point (/): >> ide1 master, partition #1 (hda1) and ide slave, partition #1 (hdb1). >> please correct this by changing mount points. >> <end box> >> So on both drives there is the root partition with the ext3 fs, they are >> both set to be formatted, the bootable flag is set on both, the mount >> points >> are / (root dir), and sizes are identical. >> Finally, they are matched. >> >> How to proceed? >> >> Many thanks in advance! >> Ned >> > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFAmeo7s9z/XlyUyARAm+6AKCKBagujzZ0aX5CGUTpCnYtgbmVhgCgvmxB > v+pcmp65HEvxcBDSodnf/NI= > =I8I1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
