The main thing I am unsure about is the RAID1 thing. Is this a good idea? How do I set it up? I imagine it won't be quite as easy as telling him to use some space on sda to mirror the stuff that ...

Currently, I'm just monkeying around with Gentoo on a slave 15gig drive, so my partitioning is sub-optimal (I kinda followed the install guide):<br><br>2GB - swap (double my RAM)<br>32MB - ...

Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to Linux kernel developers requesting that Linux run as the root partition on the Hyper-V, its hypervisor software for running Windows and non-Windows ...