Hello, W. Borgert writes: > That message was meant for debian-boot, but didn't appear > there, so I send it directly to you. Cheers! > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > > Hello Paul and all, > > > > today I tried your iso image, but had not the time to > > complete the installation - tomorrow I will do this. Three > > issues until here: > > > > 1. I'm a RAID/MD newbie: Is there a howto or manual about > > what every single step I have to take to realise RAID1 > > using the installer?
If you are new to md/raid, then I would recommend to play with it on an up and running system first. Create 2 partitions same size on different disks, a few 100 MB are perfectly sufficient. Then install mdadm and read the docs. Search on debian-user, maybe. briefly: - mark the partitions as 'fd' Linux raid autodetection - create a raid device /dev/md0 with mdadm --create (or /dev/md/0 if you have mounted devfs) - create a filesystem on that device like mkfs.xfs /dev/md0 - mount the new fs monitor progress with cat /proc/mdstat That should get you going. Once you grok that, its much simpler to deal with it, while on limited resources. > > > > 2. I'm missing XFS in the file system list. Is it really > > not there or do I have to enable this somehow? well, it's not yet in the menu, but it seems that the sw parts are available. So try to do it on the shell --- give the configurator something to do, however, otherwise it will believe that it has not successfully created and mounted file systems. > > > > 3. It seems that the installer uses Linux 2.4. Any chance > > to use and install 2.6? not yet integrated. But not a problem to boot the 2.4.24 kernel and then upgrade after base system has been installed properly. > > > > Thanks for your work, I really hope it makes it soon into > > d-i. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ > Also see my report on debian-boot http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200403/msg00652.html Good luck. I copied debian-boot CC. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
