hptraid and the others...
Hi guys,
I downloaded last week a daily snapshot of the installer (20040515) and
i'd got lots of "fun". :-)
Well, I find the four installation method
(linux/expert/linux26/expert26), but because of my pc uses HPT370 for
Raid0 i can use only the first 2 options. My disks are 2 Seagate 120 GB
hdd-s in striping and at this moment only an XP lives on them. To make
faster the install as i did in the past (this is my 5-6. raid0
installation) i created the main partitions under xp by partition magic.
So I have one 8500 MB partition for xp system, one 100 MB partition for
the /boot in ext3, and one 2 GB for mails/docs etc... After them there
are two 100 GB partition for the data/games/images/sounds etc etc. The
remaining of the disk (cc 20 GB) is the place for debian. When i started
the normal (linux) install the autodetect didn't load the hpt drivers (i
could do it by hand from a command line). After then i tried to set up
the partitions for the system boot, usr, var etc. i could choose my
ready partitions only swap or sw raid or lvm partitions (!!!) The manual
partitioning was only that i could choose the free space for debian :-(
But cannot associate the partitions with the new system's directories.
Ok i thought this is a foolproof installer. I restart the system and i
started again with expert... It cannot detect my ide drives on the raid
controller i cannot load the hptraid module from the command line.... So
i cannot try the expert partitioning solution also.
At this moment i cannot use this installer for set up a basic sarge
system. The old installer's kernel contained the hpt drivers in the
kernel, not in module (i also dislike initrd). Just i booted from the
cd, i made the partitions with cfdisk and i could start the installation.
My question is: Can I use this installer to make a sarge system on
hptraid0? And I cannot make the partitions as i like them? My problem
also was a pppoe support missing. Anytime the installer will get pppoe
support or the ppp package also contains pppoe?
Thanks
Andras
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