he first thing was to go to the YAST configuration tool of OpenSUSE (easily found in the system menu). When starting YAST, you need to enter the root user password, but you are supposed to be the adminstrator of your Linux box if you’re attempting this, aren’t you? In the system menu, I selected the partiton making tool.

The list was already showing the “normal hard disc drives” of my configuration (/dev/hda in the present case) and presented two unformatted discs (/dev/hdb and /dev/hdd at the bottom of the list).

There, I

could request the creation of the two primary partitions for the two hard disc I had added, using the Create…/Créer… button at the bottom of the screen. The only thing to do is to avoid the default proposed options and go for unformatted partitions, selecting the OxFD Linux RAID partitions (thus, the purpose is quite clear). One note here, since I wanted to test different disc sizes, I chose to partition only a small part of the /dev/hdb disc (2048 cylinders only for about 20GB).

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