----- Original Message ----- From: "oogie" <oogie@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:11 AM Subject: Install Redhat 7.2 with HPT 370 > How do I install redhat 7.2 with HPT 370 IDE RAID on 0? > I am talking about fresh install. Step 1) You must install it onto a non-RAID drive. To our knowledge it isn't possible to create a driver disk for direct installation from the CD due to a limitation within the Anaconda installer of RH 7.2. Step 2) Upgrade your kernel. You *should* be able to make the Red Hat rawhide kernels work, but I haven't been able to get them to boot. I couldn't get custom built kernel modules within an initrd image to work either. The only way I could boot off of the ATARAID device was compiling ataraid and pdcraid into the kernel itself (monolithic). Well, I have Promise instead of FastTrak, so you would need to include the hptraid instead of pdcraid. Step 3) Create your partitions on the /dev/ataraid/d0 device. Use the appropriate mke2fs commands. The -j option will create an ext3 journal. Step 4) Copy everything over to the new partiions. Step 5) Modify your /etc/fstab if necessary. Change all references from anything /dev/hda to the appropriate /dev/ataraid/d0 partition. Step 6) Install GRUB or the specially patched LILO on /dev/ataraid/d0. You will have to edit the settings appropriately to point to /dev/ataraid/d0 instead of /dev/hda.
