On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:47, James Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:43, James Gregory wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just a quick follow-up
... And that's what happens when you use evolution and a keyboard with the control key next to the enter key. Just a quick follow-up since it was a vaguely unusual configuration and I thought someone else might find this helpful. I ended up installing Fedora Core 1, simply because there was no obvious way to get the Mandrake installer to do RAID. Unfortunately there was no obvious way to get the FC1 installer to do XFS or reiserfs, so I'm currently stuck using ext3, but I made enough partitions to be able to rectify that once I get xfsprogs and an xfs capable kernel. I only had two problems really -- the first one was that my computer wasn't recognising the SATA drives. That ended up being because the drive enclosure things I bought had two SATA sockets on the back of them which I assumed routed to the same place internally (I mean it's a case for exactly one hard drive, where else would it go?). My assumption ended up being false, and plugging the drive into the "other" socket solved that problem. That was pretty confusing for a while. Once I'd got the drive physically connected, the HPT374 controller found it and that was all dandy. They appeared to both the Fedora and Mandrake installers as /dev/hde and /dev/hdg. The FC1 RAID stuff in the installer was easy enough to use. Post install my machine wouldn't boot. It said "no operating system" or similar. That ended up being a case of going into the HPT374 setup and telling it that the "other" drive was the boot drive. At some point I'll look into getting grub to install on both drives, but for now it's up and running and I'm happy :) James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
