умеет Linux делать софтовые RAID массивы или не умеет

Во втором случае пока не заполнится первый свап второй не начнет использоваться, поэтому скорость дисковой подсистемы будет ниже.

Разве swap'ы не используются одновременно, в той пропорции которую задаёт приоритет?

3. INSTALL SOFTWARE SuSE

The installation requires special care since SuSE 9.x series reboots automatically.
By default SuSE wants to boot from the Hard Disk. At Boot Time manual intervention is required to
choose Installation.

3.1 Insert Bootable( disk 1) CDROM and Driver Floppy

3.2 Choose "Installation" instead of "Boot From Hard Disk"

3.3 When it comes to Yast Base installation screen, before you choose the language for
installation, get a shell prompt (see last page) and execute the initial_install script
as follows:

# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
# cd /media/floppy
# ./initial_install.sh


3.4 Follow the rest of the instructions

Choose 'New installation' if a fresh install

3.5 Most SuSE installations require some extra steps as follows:

a) Disk 1( bootable CD) should be in the CD/DVD ROM drive before system reboot.


b) REPEAT the installation steps EXACTLY as the first
time. Choose INSTALLATION again and repeat the steps
you followed in 3.3.

c) However, when Yast (the graphical interface) comes up
choose 'Boot installed system' instead of 'New installation'

d) Finish the installation but BEFORE rebooting the second
time do the following:

# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
# cd /media/floppy
# ./upgrade_driver.sh or sh ./upgrade_driver.sh

After running upgrade_drive.sh, now remove CD and You are done.

e) Reboot System.
If you get a 'grub>' screen or 'Kernel Panic' you will have to go back to step a).
Typically you login as root and have the full window system
at this point.





4. GENERAL INFO

. If you cat /proc/scsi/sii3112/* you should see the Driver as reported by
the kernel

. If you cat /proc/scsi/scsi you should see the your RAID TYPE as reported
by the kernel


5. Special Cases

If the driver does not install automatically you can install it manually
as follows:

a) Wait until the Graphical Interface comes up at boot time. An
ACCEPT/CANCEL box show up.

b) Get a console window (CTL-ALT-F2).

c) Mount the floppy and install the default driver. One way
to do it is by typing:

mkdir /f; mount /dev/fd0 /f; cd /f; ./initial_install.sh

d) CTL-ALT-F7 gets you back to the graphical interface.

e) Continue with the installation. The next time it reboots
you will have to repeat the steps above. See next section.

* If disk fails to format you may have to repartition the drives
as follows:
. get a window CTL-ALT-F2)
. mke2fs /dev/sda; fdisk /dev/sda
then type "2" then "w" to rewrite the partition table