Re: RH7.3, Fasttrak controller, and a lot of questions

["Forge XP" <forge@xxxxxxx>]

It's quite possible. I'm using Win2k Pro and Gentoo on a Fasttrak TX4 for much the same reasons.

 

If you can get ahold of a spare hard disk for a day or so, it's fairly easy to make any distro ataraid-ready.

 

Partition spare disk

 

Install distro of choice onto normal hard disk

 

Reconfigure/recompile stock kernel to include ataraid and the Promise-specific module *in the kernel*

 

Get LILO/GRUB and /etc/fstab configured as they would be on the fasttrak

 

Get the Gentoo minimal boot CD.

 

Boot Gentoo CD

 

insmod ataraid and pdcraid

 

dd from the temporary install to it's final location

 

reboot and use Gentoo's rescue CD options to boot the Gentoo kernel and the new fasttrak distro

 

run LILO/GRUB to install bootloader

 

eject CD and (hopefully) reboot into your RAID-enhanced distro.

 

Note: I haven't actually gone through with this process in quite some time. I did manage to get an ataraid-enhanced Debian Woody working with this process and GRUB, but I found it's simpler to get a solo IDE/SCSI drive and use that as your Linux drive, with a small C: for Windows boot files and the like.

 

Rich 'Forge' Mingin

www.tech-report.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Emiliano Caramaschi

To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:14 AM

Subject: RH7.3, Fasttrak controller, and a lot of questions

Does anyone have any tip on how should  I install  RH7.3 over my onboard fasttrack controller? I tried the RH7.2  drivers from promise , but I have no success.

Does anyone succeed to make it works?

 

I do know that software raid is faster, but I plan to make a dual boot with winxp pro, on the same raid. Is this possible?

 

Sorry for my awful English

 

 

 

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