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Author: Austin Godber
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Subject: / spanning multiple disks
Check out RAID0 there is a part about booting off a RAID device. I have never
used RAID0 so I don't know how serisous it is about the "devices approximately
the same size."

http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html

You might be better off just finding a different mountpoint for the other
partition (/home maybe).

Austin

Rob Wultsch wrote:
> I have a sun sparcstation 20 that has 2x 1gig hard drives. The first
> drive I created a a single bootable partition on, and the second I
> created with the first partition being .5 gig and type linux native, and
> the second is .5 gig and linux swap.
>
> I have mounted the first scsi disk as root, and the debian installer is
> asking where I would like to mount the first partion of the second disk.
>
> Is there anyway to seemlessly span the entirety of the first disk with
> the first partition of the second disk all mounted as / ?