i thought that the debian rescue disk didnt include support course i havent tested this yet.
and no the systems have no cdrom. and yes i do not like the idea of having the OS on the raid controller. boot speeds do not concern me, i reboot my systems once every 6-7 months at most so..5 minutes to boot every 6 months is a non issue :) same goes for fsck. i don't mind a 5-10-20-30minute fsck once every 6-12 months. thanks for the info, tomorrow i should recieve the floppy cable that the company forgot to install in the system and i will try to install 2.2r3. hope it goes well. nate > > Why are you trying to rebuild your rescue floppy? The Linux kernel > already includes excellent 3Ware drivers so IIANM your rescue floppy > should already be able to access the RAID array. If you are using such > an old version of Debian that it predates the 3Ware products... you > might want to consider upgrading your distro instead of sending back > your hardware. > > All of the drives are supposed to be on the RAID controller. That's > good design. RAID boots fast, especially 3Ware RAID 0. > > Also, if these are new systems they probably include a CD-ROM reader, > correct? You should be able to boot directly from the Debian CD if you > set the correct option in the BIOS. Booting from CD is much faster and > MUCH more reliable than booting from a floppy. > > Shawn Yarbrough >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> hi >> >> i recieved 3 new systems today ..i was unaware of their >> (lack) of design until i opened the case. they are >> 1U IDE raid systems from some company called 'pogolinux'. >> the problem is there is 4 drives, and ALL of them are on >> the raid controller(3ware). since i am not gonna >> be using redhat on these systems, i need to figure out >> the best way to replace the kernel on the rescue >> disk for debian so it will recognize the drives. either >> that or i return the systems. I can take care of the >> compiling kernel and stuff no problem just would like to >> know if there is a way to replace the kernel image. >> last time i checked, when i mounted the rescue disk >> all it was was a bunch of files, so could i just copy >> my new kernel on top of the old one?(don't need to >> worry about modules i won't be using any at first, everything >> will be statically built). or is there something more >> to it. last time i created a boot disk with kernel-package >> it seemed to be a rather inflexable boot disk(didn't have >> lilo, or at least didn't have it configured so i could do >> other things with it, it would just boot without prompting) >> i really don't like the idea of having the OS on raid >> especially because we will be running them in raid0, >> that would indeed suck to have the OS itself go down >> because of a storage drive dieing. >> >> any help would be appreciated. >> >> thanks! >> >> nate >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
