Re: Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid

[oneman <lists@onemanifest.net>]

On 1-okt-2008, at 10:03, John Merchant wrote:

> 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?
I wouldn't know if that's at all possible, but personally I wouldn't  
trust a system running mixture of releases when my data depends on  
it. Isn't the whole point of RAID an increased reliability? (except  
for RAID0). Again, you're better of using linux software raid with  
your card. Save yourself a lot of trouble and get a reliable system.

Peter