Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Gray
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 Derek Chew En-Hock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as > I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use > Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't > reboot)... This seemed to be the

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Oliver, good to hear from you again... let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't reboot)... then what I need to do is to transfer a copy of t

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Oliver, Great to hear from you!! so this CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O is a kernel option I have to include eh? How do I specify this? In the Kernel Config area of the Debian Setup? I can see the RAID array after I add in the modules using the floppy disc created by http://people.debian.org/~blade/in

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
You wrote: > ..Oliver, would your boot image cover software raid setups too? And > install from network? Say from a lan mirror? If so, image url? ;-) Sorry; it was a specific build for a hardware RAID machine. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight,

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:39:48 +0100, Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:11, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: > > With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and > > it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and install

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:11, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: > With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it > automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I > guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current > abilities... > > Does anyone k

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-08 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current abilities... Does anyone know of a way I can extract the drivers from the Redhat disc or boo

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-07 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hey Guys, I still having big problems with this machine... I tried redoing the setup again this time using EXT3 for the root partition incase I messed up something else but still no go... did quite a fair bit of google groups searching but no one else seems to have this issue... don't tell me I ha

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Its actually a ATA RAID Card which uses DPTI2O Drivers... and I know its bootable as the machine used to be running Microsoft Small Business Server and it used the RAID Array as a boot disc... another thing is the Adaptec Diagnostic CD uses a strip down version of Linux to run... so I know that

Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-03 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the experience has b