<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > > > What I want to do is something that seems should be the norm, not > > > something unusual: I want RAID mirroring. > > > > Easy to do straight off, from the (text mode, or "alternate") > > installer. > > I can't handle the thousand kernel module config questions of the text > mode installer. :-)
The Ubuntu text mode installer (found on the alternate CD) doesn't have any kernel module config questions. It's fast and simple, as it has been since the very first release. > How will it know to include the ide and sata drivers and raid stuff? I'll > try it, though it helps if I understood roughly *how* it figures out what > you need. mkinitramfs is a shell script, so it's pretty easy to figure out what it's doing. For module stuff, look in: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions > > sata_sil > > sd_mod > > Sounds good - how do I determine the right module names, though? (I've > never understood that.) You really have to learn which drivers are appropriate for your hardware, in this kind of situation. Look at which drivers are loaded using lsmod(1) and see whereabouts they live under /lib/modules/<kernel-version> for a pretty good idea of what kind of hardware it's for. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "It's the most fun I've had without the use of a water-based lubricant." - Stephen Fry on directing his first film -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
