Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
This is starting to enter an area where I can't say too much with full certainty. Below I'll give a few hints that may or may not work. After that, I'll probably withdraw, as I won't have much more useful info to add right right now. In addition, using the capitaI i for normaI L, as this stupid wi

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread ML mail
ednesday, October 12, 2011 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation I was happy to have a MEPIS Live CD around with ext4 support. I've used it to move data about and pre-partition/pre-format the partitions, except for the ones used for sRAID. I don

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
I was happy to have a MEPIS Live CD around with ext4 support. I've used it to move data about and pre-partition/pre-format the partitions, except for the ones used for sRAID. I don't know if MEPIS supports the architecture you're using, but maybe Knoppix would be more suitable. Knoppix has it's De

Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread ML mail
cylinder 1 instead. If I exit to the shell during install there is not even the fdisk command. Any ideas how to do that? Regards ML - Original Message - From: Ad L. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:04 PM Subject: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc

Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
First of all, I am not very experienced and use the i686 architecture, but what I did might help: I've put a variety of partitions on the 2 disks I use for the purpose of dual booting. One holds the filesystems etc. for the other OS, intended for legacy applications that I still use... may use. I

How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-11 Thread ML mail
Hello, I have a Sun Netra X1 with two identical 80 GB IDE hard-disks and would like to install Debian 6.0 squeeze (sparc) using RAID 1.  Now I tried various methods but all somehow failed for example by failing to install silo at the end... Also my problem is that I can't set the "physical vol