Hi, all!
This is a dirty hack, but it worked for me installing Debian/woody.
Make your normal installation floppies, but before you write them to floppys, mount the floppy image loopback and copy the initrd image somewhere on your hd
(obviously, you'll need another linux box to do this :)). now gunzip the image and mount the resulting file loopback, too. It should contain a filesystem
image, which you'll need to mount as well. Now change to the dev directory _of this image_ (not /dev!!) and do the following:
rm hde*
for i in `seq 1 15`; do mknod hde${i} block 114 $i; done
mknod hde block 114 0
Now umount the filesystem, gzip the initrd image, copy it back onto the mounted floppy image, umount the floppy image, dd it on a floppy. You should be able
to partition /dev/hde from the installer and install to /dev/hdex. Before rebooting after the install, make the device files in /dev/ataraid and modify the
fstab to reflect the changes. You'll still need to install a patched version of lilo, if you want to boot from the raid.
Hope this works for you, YMMV, etc.
--Chris
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:05:44PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> ----- 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.
>
>
>
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