Boot from the Red Hat 7.1 CD and select a Custom Installation.

When you get to the disk configuration selection, choose to manually partition the disk with fdisk (I tried to use Disk Druid, but it kept messing with the partitions and driving me crazy!).

Do the following to both disks (choose one first and then when you are done go back to the other):

1. Delete all of the current partitions with the d command
2. Use the n command to create the following partitions:

   Partition Type	Partition #	Size
   Primary	1	+200M
   Extended	2	The remainder of the disk
   Logical		5% of the partition
   Logical		25% of the partition
   Logical		30% of the partition
   Logical		15% of the partition
   Logical		15% of the partition
   Logical		All remaining space

3. Use the t command to mark partitions 1 and 5-10 as type fd (Linux raid autodetect).
4. Make sure that partition 1 is bootable.
5. Use the w command to write the configuration to the disk.
6. Dont forget to set-up the other disk exactly as this one!

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