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Re: how to download the packages in Debian testing non-free before installing?



On Lu, 23 ian 12, 15:55:04, lee wrote:
> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Jo, 19 ian 12, 01:20:18, lee wrote:
> >> 
> >> Well, this laptop has two harddrives out of which I´ll make a
> >> software RAID-1. Last time I checked, installing and booting from a
> >> RAID was only possible by using LVM (and md), and the d/i of Testing
> >> was able to do that pretty easily for me. 
> >
> > No, you don't need LVM and even the grub in squeeze can boot from md 
> > devices.
> 
> Apparently it can´t boot from RAID on this laptop.  I have tried a lot
> of different configurations, i. e. with LVM and without and with
> different partition layouts.  Either grub couldn´t be installed or when
> booting the system from the harddisk after the installation finished,
> grub got stuck at the "Welcome to grub" message before showing the boot
> menu.

Other than "make sure you are using grub2" (package grub-pc) I can give 
you no advise. The only system with RAID I do maintain was installed via 
debootstrap, not D-I.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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