I've just built a new system based on a KT7A-RAID, which I know can be made to work, but my potato install CD says that it can't find any hard drives and offers to load any required modules from floppy.
Poking around on google, I found a message quoting a debian-boot post from last December (which doesn't seem to be in the list archive) which says that the way to do this is to put a hard drive on one of the non-RAID IDE channels, install to it, build a custom kernel using the patches from linux-ide.org, then set up your RAID to mirror the disk that you've installed onto. Is that still the recommended procedure for installing onto a RAID which is handled by this board's HPT370 controller or has something better and/or simpler been developed since last December? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss