I've been using Mandrake Linux for a few years now, and always preferred LM8.2 because it was supposed to be the most stable version they have produce to date. But i got hacked and the main problem was updating packages no longer supported by Mandrake. I don't like their end of product life expectancy, similar to windows. I'm now starting with Debian, because there more interested in stability than adding everything before its been fully tested. I could never get uprmi to work, even on Mandrakes latest releases, but apt is excellent, works first time every time ( apart for openoffice, its says there isn't one available ) Anyway, I'm trying to build a raid 1 with two 160gig IDE drives, I'm booting from Debian 3.0r5 'vanilla' kernel from Scsi and have the two ide's on separate ide channels. Going through mdadm howtos and such they say start with the following Samba3:/etc/init.d# mkraid /dev/md0 And i get the following mkraid version 0.36.4 parsing configuration file mkraid: aborted so then i tried Samba3:/etc/init.d# mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=linear --raid-devices=2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc and got the following mdadm: Create requires md driver version 0.90.0 or later So i looked at the version of mdadm i had updated to using apt-get install mdadm Samba3:/etc/init.d# mdadm -V and it said mdadm - v1.9.0 - 04 February 2005 How do i get the latest version of md via apt, or am i doing something else wrong here I have also read that if i do the following Samba3:/proc# cat mdstat and get the following result ( below is me ) Personalities : read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive Then i need kernel patches for raid ! Do i need kernel patches ( I'm running Debain on 'vanilla' because of my scsi card ) ps if i run apt-get install mdadm now i get the following Samba3:/proc# apt-install mdadm bash: apt-install: command not found Samba3:/proc# apt-get install mdadm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: mdadm 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 344 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/104kB of archives. After unpacking 254kB will be used. debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7, <> line 1.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 48796 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mdadm (from .../mdadm_1.9.0-4_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_1.9.0-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/sbin/mdrun', which is also in package raidtools dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_1.9.0-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Samba3:/proc# could this be my problem Many thanks Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
