On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 16:00:46 -0400,
Jeffrey Ross <jeff(a)bubble.org> wrote:
James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just bought a 1tb drive but can't afford another at the moment.
> I'd like to install FC9 as a degraded software array but can't in the
> installer. Is there a way around this?
> Jim
>
I haven't found a way yet although I wish you could specify the second
spindle as "missing" it would be useful. You can convert your system to
You can do that. 'mdadm -G /dev/md0 -f -n 1' should be close to what you want
to use to change an existing raid 1 array with only one working element.
Boot in rescue mode, adjust the array and then do the install.