Ideas for Installing RH 7.3 w/ Promise FastTrak

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I know some of you are trying to install RH 7.3 , Linux ataraid with
Promise FastTrak.

I have the following suggestions to achieve this; If you are trying RH7.3,
I would appreciate your comments on these, OR anyone has better ideas!!


1. Install RH 7.3 on one disk using boot time Append Line. Then
"repair" using Promise FastTrak BIOS (Cntrl-F) i.e., to create RAID

2. Mount boot.img on loop0, replace its kernel by same version BOOT kernel
but WITH built-in ataraid/pdcraid support. Then dump boot.img to a
floppy. Install with this boot floppy. (To prepare kernel, use
kernel-sourceXXX-BOOT-i386.rpm, and appropriate config in configs/ )

3. Mess with ft.o (partial) source code rel.tgz available under LinuxBETA
folder at ftp://ftp.promise.com/  Especially, try adding module parameters
for IO Base1, Cntrl Base1, IO Base2, Cntrl Base2.
Make sure you always use kernel-source-XXX-BOOT-i386.rpm and i386 config
from configs/ directory. Otherwise you get a lot of "symbol not found".
Then boot with CD, with Append Line (must specify IRQ in the Append Line
to prevent crash). After you generate ft.o this way, just copy to a dos
floppy and try to use it during installation. (mount -t vfat /tmp/fd0
/tmp/whatever; insmod ft.o)


-Murty








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