[plug] Help request

[Jon Miller]

I understand this, however I have a single boot drive just for the purpose of booting the server the RAIDs are for storing the data.  I didn't want any of the OS running on these RAIDS.

Jon

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au 10:19:12 pm 9/03/2004 >>>
Hello Jon and list members,

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jon  Miller wrote:

> Got everything to work.
>
Good news and thanks for the "recipe."  One thing I picked up on is that
you used a boot hard disk, presummably IDE connected since they'd be
pretty much guaranteed to be recognised as an install target drive by the
distros.   Readers may recall that I faced a similar challenge back in mid
January and with great help from this list, managed to get things sorted
out without recourse to a temporary hard drive.

The basic recipe I used (with acknowledged help!) was:
1) set up the RAID controller, drives and array.  In my case it was an IBM
server with ServeRAID controller.   Fired up the ServeRAID utilities
(Linux-based, by the way) and configured and formatted the array.

2) Compiled a kernel (on another Linux machine) containing the appropriate
ServerRAID drivers and other IBM-hardware-specific drivers.   My chosen
distro was Debian.

3) Created a Debian "boot floppies" installation CD - here was where I
needed the help! - incorporating that custom kernel.

4) Installed from the customised boot floppies CD straight onto the RAID
array.   One of the installation steps was a cfdisk so I could not forget
to do that!

Hope this helps others in future.  Should apply to other distros.  The
secret being to make and use that custom kernel, it seems.

Cheers,
Denis


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