Re: Debian install/2.4 Kernel/ATA-100 RAID

[Marcus Marinelli <marcus@marinelli.org>]

I origionally scoured every place I could think of to find a module that 
supported RAID for the D*** thing, but couldn't find a thing. I then was 
looking at the RH7 doc, and saw a thing about software raid in the GUI 
install (I didn't see it in the text version however...?). I just went 
ahead and created a striped array with the two drives in the HPT-370 
bios, although I don't think I needed too, as in the installer it found 
"invalid superblock, must be initialized" or something like that. I then 
just went ahead with the install, and when I got to the disk druid I 
just created a /boot on of disk, a smallish swap file on the other (1/2 
gig of ram...), and a "raid" partition on each drive. Then there was a 
button that lit up when I had two raid partitions that was something on 
the lines of "create raid array". hit the sucka, and the rest should be 
pretty normal. One thing to mention, if I were you, I'd try w/o telling 
the hpt bios its a raid array, that might help being able to boot off 
the disk. (I have to use a floppy...) About debian install, I haven't 
tried yet, it seemed like it wasn't possible yet, so thats why I asked...

Marcus

Jenserikthys@aol.com wrote:

> could yoou give me some additional information how you managed to install the 
> redhat 7.1 as well as debian including the hpt370 because my system freezes 
> at install.
> Are there some peculiar settings in bios, kernel boot up etc .
> thanks for your reply

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