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