Re: RAID config option missing

[Sebastien LANGE <doownek@doownek.org>]

Hi,

I wrote an How-to for installing RAID on the Sparc but it's in french.:
http://www.sunwizard.net/html/articles/sl001.html
But with google translate :
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sunwizard.net%2Fhtml%2Farticles%2Fsl001.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Jim Farrand a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Debian on a Sun Ultra 60 with 2 SCSI harddisks.  I
> want to use software RAID on the discs.
>
> Although I can see the config option in partitioning section for
> configering RAID, I am not able to set partitions to type "Physical
> volume for RAID" in the partition config (which is a pre-requisite to
> the Configuring RAID step).  All the guides I can find tell me I really
> need to be able to set this option to do the install (although they are
> all x86 specific).
>
> Does anyone know if this is just a bug in the installer, or is there a
> good reason that this option is missing (ie RAID won't work on this
> setup)?  Or do I need to do something different on sparc systems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim