Package: Debian Installer Version: 3.1 I have been installing Debian Stable 3.1 (Sarge) onto some Dell SC1425 servers and have run into a problem with the partitioning in the installer.
The servers have a pair of SATA drives which I am setting up in a level 1 RAID array. Once I have created the md devices and assigned a filesystem and mount point to the array I select the option to complete paritioning and proceed. The installer then attempts to format each partition but fails for the RAID array devices as it expects an device name (/dev/md/0p1) that is inconsistent with the device node created by devfs (/dev/md/0). I worked around the problem by using the console on tty2 to manually mknod the necessary device to suite the incorrect naming expected in the installer however I would not expect anyone not familiar with Linux sysadmin to know how to do this or even that it is necessary. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ 2Mb ADSL Broadband from just £14.98 / month Bonded ADSL now available
