On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to install Woody on a motherboard with SATA RAID, using the > RAID 1 array as the root partition. The problem is that the neccessary > driver (silraid) is in 2.4.22, but not in 2.4.18 (which as we all know is the > Debian install kernel). > > Any suggestions? This is for a server that needs to be up on Monday... > :(
A hack type solution is to find some way of booting linux on the machine: that is to say any linux distribution, redhat, knoppix, some rescue floppy somewhere, and so on. Then once you have linux running, get the network up and send over a tarball of a Debian base system (you can create this using debootstrap), unpack that, install the necessary kernel 2.4.22 in your case (you can use make-kpgk to make youself a nice little package) then run lilo or set up grub or whatever and reboot into debian. Please let me know if you need help with any of these steps. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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