On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:36:03PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > From what I understand the current debian installer does not support > > SATA, let alone RAID. Does this mean that I will have to install the > > system on normal IDE hdd and then move it to SATA disks manually, after > > installing a new kernel? > > That's one way of doing it. Another, albeit twisted way, is to install > another system e.g. RedHat, on a small partition, and then convert the > system to debian on the fly. Other suggestions? >
1. What about installing a small system to ram disk + installing there a new kernel and then using chroot and dbootstrap to install the real system? With today memory size this should be quite straight forward, doesn't it? It could be debootstrap and not dbootstrap. I believe Debian has both, each one intended for different circumstances. 2. With the old Debian installer one could replace the installer's kernel if he preferred another one, couldn't he? If this is the case then perhaps you can use the old installer with a kernel to your liking. Isn't it possible to replace the kernel of the new Debian installer? As a last resort I guess that the whole installer can be built from scratch, this time with a kernel to your liking. 3. May be the issue should be taken to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
