Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1

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>> What would the procedure be for moving the data off my (single) Maxtor onto a 
>> RAID1 of 2 WD800JBs?

>I wonder if I should just use the fedora installation disk to create a 
>RAID1 from the two WD disks and install it on there, then somehow copy 
>over the data from the Maxtor (perhaps while booted from a Live Linux CD)?

Create the raid1 and mkfs. Then 
  cp -aux / /raid
then boot single user and do it again to get the few files that have changed
(logs etc)

then adjust your boot program to boot from the raid

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