On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 16:38:44 -0500, Phoenix Dreamscape wrote: > First of all, i should specify that i'm a linux newbie. I can get around > in linux, but don't know how to do any of the complicated stuff (i.e. > compiling a custom kernel)
Compiling a custom kernel is not very difficult, provided you've read the relevant documentation, e.g. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html supplemented with the documentation of Debian's "kernel-package" package with which you can build your kernel+modules as a .deb package. > I have a High Point 370 RAID PCI card installed on this computer, with two > hard drives in RAID 0, and i want to install Debian. High point > (http://www.highpoint-tech.com) provides some linux drivers for 4 specific > distros, and debian isn't one of them (Redhat and SuSE are the ones i > remember). Support for that card is standard in recent kernels. E.g. 2.4.17-rc1 has Highpoint 370 software RAID CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT Say Y or M if you have a Highpoint HPT 370 Raid controller and want linux to use the softwareraid feature of this card. This driver uses /dev/ataraid/dXpY (X and Y numbers) as device names. If you choose to compile this as a module, the module will be called hptraid.o. > I've never worked with modules/drivers in linux, so i have no idea what > i'm doing, but i was told that i can recompile the kernel on the debian > install disks I doubt you'll actually need custom install disks. AFAIK, it should be possible to install Debian on the first disk using the regular boot floppies, then build a custom kernel to support the card and then set up mirroring. (At least, that's what I hope - my workstation has this card in it and has a currently unused second HD; I haven't gotten around to setting up mirroring on it) HTH, Ray -- LWN normally tries to avoid talking much about Microsoft - it is simply irrelevant to the free software world most of the time. http://www.lwn.net/2000/0406/
