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 have to give up using Debian on this machine???!!!
DCEH> Hi Everyone, DCEH> been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of DCEH> it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines DCEH> (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying DCEH> to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the DCEH> experience has been quite good... In fact, a few months ago, I shifted DCEH> from using my Win XP machine to my Debian Machine as my main machine DCEH> at home... while my XP Machine is just left for me to play EVE-online DCEH> :) DCEH> Anyway, recently I was handed a PIII Machine which has a 3 disk RAID 5 DCEH> array created using an Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Controller... I wanted DCEH> to install Debian on it for use as an Intranet Web Server for the DCEH> office... Well, I booted off the Debian 3.0 Disc 1, used the bf24 DCEH> option and discovered that I could not find any hard drives on DCEH> board... looking around the USENET for clues, I found out that you DCEH> needed to use a floppy to load in the required modules to get Debian DCEH> to recognise the RAID Controller.. I managed to find a floppy image at DCEH> http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and it managed to DCEH> allow my Debian installation to happily detect the RAID Controller... DCEH> I then proceeded to partition my disk as follows: DCEH> /dev/sda0 /boot ext2 700 MB DCEH> /dev/sda1 / Reisfer FS 110 GB DCEH> /dev/sd3 SWAP 1.2 GB DCEH> I set a swap partition to 1.2 GB as I have 512 Meg of RAM and I think DCEH> I read somewhere that you should have a swap partition with a minimum DCEH> of twice your available RAM right? DCEH> Anyway, I made /dev/sda0 bootable and rebooted the machine... what DCEH> greeted me was a blinking cursor and a beeping sound... DCEH> I also tried to reinstall and add the some RAID5 kernel modules during DCEH> the setup but that doesn't help either... DCEH> Any suggestions any one? Apparently there isn't much people on USENET DCEH> with 2400A Linux machines as I could only find a few posting and their DCEH> situations doesn't help mine much... DCEH> -- DCEH> Best regards, DCEH> Derek mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Derek mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]