Hi jasper, > ... > i have to catch up reading about Gentoo's Live CD, afaik it works just > like the Knoppix project. > > I presume i can take the: > ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/pentium4/ Gentoo is not only a LiveCD, it is also a full distro. If you want to use gentoo, you have to compile everything by yourself (emerge do it for you, it's something like apt-get) There's a great installer doku: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml > ... > let's hope it'll detect the 1Gbit broadcom controller ;) No idea, but should work. > ... > i should add the 3 /dev/sda* filesystems there i presume. yes! give a look at another /etc/fstab at a already installed debian machine > ... >> - kernel configuration >> - DO NOT include 79xx support. >> - include Adaptec i20 RAID support (in scsi menu) i2o_dpt > > so the i20 detects both the 2010 and the 7902? No, the 2010s board detects 7902 and communicate with this SCSI-controller; The kernel only communicate with the Adaptec 2010s (It's a so called Zero Channel Raid Controller, means it has not a SCSI-Controller onboard) Graphic: (<=> means comunicate) Kernel <=> Adaptec 2010s <=> Adaptec 7902 <=> SCSI Harddrives > ... Kind regards, valli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
