Greetings!
Does anyone by chance have Debian running on a machine with DAC960PL?
If so, I would appreciate any information as to how to install it.
I have a 1997 vintage dual PPro AST (?) server that I would like to
make the primary server on our network. It has a Mylex DAC960PL Raid
controller with 4 drives connected. The machine has no other drives,
although I guess I'll end up hooking one up to the Adaptec controller
on the motherboard if I cannot figure out a way to make the current
configuration work.
So far, I have compiled a custom 2.0.36 kernel with DAC960 support
(thanks to Leonard Zubkoff of Dandelion for the driver), ramdisk,
initrd, ext2, fat, minix, etc. I replaced the kernel on the rescue
floppy so the Raid array is recognized at boot time. I also modified
the root disk image to include /dev/rd/c0d* device files. I can boot
and the kernel sees the array. From the second virtual terminal I can
even do fdisk on it and mkfs on the primary partition(s).
However, it has so far proved impossible to create a file system on a
logical partition. dbootstrap says the system has no hard disks to
install the system on. I am obviously missing something.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I spent so
much time convincing the management that Linux was better that I
cannot afford them saying "Hey, you could have done it with NT a lot
easier!"
Thanks!
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Andrew Permyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
R. A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
