Re: Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid

[John Merchant <john@merchant.on.net>]

Peter Teunissen wrote:
> On Wed, October 1, 2008 03:39, John Merchant wrote:
>   
> > Dear Debian user,
> >
> > I'm having trouble installing Etchy on a fakeraid/BIOS raid array, the
> > installer doesn't seem to detect the array but instead it detects the
> > separate SATA drives.
> >
> >     
>
> At the moment your best bet would be to set the fakeraid card to JBOD and
> simply use linux software raid. Most proven method.
>
> There's experimental support however in Lenny for installing on fakeraid
> using the dmraid driver. You start the lenny installer with
>
> 'install dmraid=true'
>
> There's some info on: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid
>
> I haven't tried it myself though, I simply use the JBOD / software raid
> option.
>
>
>   
I've tried using Lenny, but unfortunately the installer didn't detect my 
network card. Is there anyway I can somehow install the dmraid drivers 
onto the Etch installer?

Cheers,
John