Hello All,

I'm trying to install 8.04 server on to a software raid but I'm having difficulty. I've had a look around the internet for info but everything I find is confusing, conflicting or out of date.

Here's what I want to do:

I have two SATA drives, a 80GB drive and a 500GB drive. I want to use the 80GB drive as the system drive and to store my Apache web projects (and maybe a subversion repository but that can wait). I want the 500GB drive to contain a a few partitions; an 80GB partition set to raid1 along with the system drive, a 320GB to be used as a target for rsync from my main machine, and a third partition of the remaining space to store random things on. The PC I'm installing to does not have an optical drive so I am using the usb network install.

How do I achieve this configuration? Do I have to set the drives up at installation? I assume I have to set up LVM during installation, but I don't understand the details.

Cheers
Benedict