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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> dsbrown@cyllene.uwa.edu.au 10:19:12 pm 9/03/2004
>>><BR>Hello Jon and list members,<BR><BR>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jon
Miller wrote:<BR><BR>> Got everything to work.<BR>><BR>Good news and
thanks for the "recipe." One thing I picked up on is that<BR>you used a
boot hard disk, presummably IDE connected since they'd be<BR>pretty much
guaranteed to be recognised as an install target drive by
the<BR>distros. Readers may recall that I faced a similar challenge
back in mid<BR>January and with great help from this list, managed to get things
sorted<BR>out without recourse to a temporary hard drive.<BR><BR>The basic
recipe I used (with acknowledged help!) was:<BR>1) set up the RAID controller,
drives and array. In my case it was an IBM<BR>server with ServeRAID
controller. Fired up the ServeRAID utilities<BR>(Linux-based, by the
way) and configured and formatted the array.<BR><BR>2) Compiled a kernel (on
another Linux machine) containing the appropriate<BR>ServerRAID drivers and
other IBM-hardware-specific drivers. My chosen<BR>distro was
Debian.<BR><BR>3) Created a Debian "boot floppies" installation CD - here was
where I<BR>needed the help! - incorporating that custom kernel.<BR><BR>4)
Installed from the customised boot floppies CD straight onto the
RAID<BR>array. One of the installation steps was a cfdisk so I could
not forget<BR>to do that!<BR><BR>Hope this helps others in future. Should
apply to other distros. The<BR>secret being to make and use that custom
kernel, it
seems.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Denis<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>PLUG
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