Greg Folkert wrote: > ... >>>Just for laughs, how does FC go on that box? >> >>Nothing to laugh about - it just works. Perfectly, straight out of the >>box. No mucking about, just create the partitions i want (RAID 1 on >>everything: /, /boot, and swap) and install. So does SuSE Personal 9.1. > > > Too bad. MD Raid is tough for a bootable setup with automated tools.
This is part of what i don't understand. As Alvin Oga and i were discussing a while back (see archives), it is a supported configuration by the kernel, and Red Hat have supported it since 7.3. I guess that's why Progeny decided to port anaconda - it worked out your tough problem. > I have a workaround to get it to work proper. > > If you want I can help you through that. Thank you. That's the first offer i've had (except for John Summerfield's offer to consult for a fee). If you'd like a description of my problem, see <http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/07/msg02914.html> and <http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/07/msg00771.html> (although the hang is fixed under recent snapshots). I've read several HOWTOs on it, but none of them seem to solve the problem completely: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/07/msg01195.html http://www.james.rcpt.to/programs/debian/raid1/ http://members.ferrara.linux.it/calicant/docs/debianraid/debian_raid1.html I just did a bit more searching and found http://alioth.debian.org/projects/rootraiddoc/ - maybe i'll try that. Maybe all of this is pointless if i just wait for the next Progeny beta release. According to Ian Murdock it is fairly close, and as long as it can see my SATA drives, i suspect it will work. > ... > I jumped ship from RedHat long before that. RH7.3 is the Last version I > installed from ANYONE. Customers included. There seems to be a large anti-Red Hat/SuSE contingent here. (I have a gift for stating the obvious. :-) I know people don't like their trademark & Enterprise subscription licenses, but until they stopped supporting Red Hat Linux, they were a genuinely free, useful, and stable option. Everything "just worked" for me, including RPM, which everyone who hasn't take the time to understand seems to think is fundamentally broken. (It's not - saying RPM is broken because it doesn't automatically resolve dependencies is like saying dpkg is broken for the same reason. It's a low-level tool for the job of package management - the smarts are in the upper levels like yum & apt-get, just like they are on Debian.) > ... > I am supporting the existing 7.3- with yum. Using www.fedoralegacy.org > awesome. But not quite Debian... :) And not quite updated regularly, either. > ... >>Sorry for the venting, but i imagine i'm not alone - there are plenty of >>Red Hat refugees around, and i was almost sold on Debian before i even >>installed it. You can make some significant new converts by just taking >>our concerns seriously. > > We aren't called Snobbians fer nothing. Another common term I ave seen: > Dweebians. I found that out the hard way... > ... > Don't let us get you down. Too late for that. ;-( -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- Did you know? Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook have a poor track record for security <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878>. Why not try one of the more secure alternatives from <http://www.mozilla.org>? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
