All the steps worked as advertised except two. I had trouble mounting a second disk and I had trouble with the 'beep' trick.

 I had an existing drive with linux on it already that I was simply going to use as a second drive to retain the half-terra byte worth of data. I found out that i had to use 'sdb1' instead of 'sdb' to mount it.

The beep trick is not in /et/rc.load. It's in /etc/rc.local

Well done sir. I appreciate the tutorial here.