Hi, I've searched the usenet-archives for this extensively and came up with about a million posts, but none of them gave me a clear view on this. The question is pretty simple:
Can I install Mandrake on an existing IDE hardware raid(0)-array which has windows 2000 already installed? I'm thinking it can't be done (yet). I have no experience with raid-setups myself, as I am asking this for a friend who recently bought a fancy new PC and I convinced him that he should install Linux so he can see how great it is :) I am no newbie, so it would not be a problem to compile a new kernel or stuff like that. I tried to boot from the Mandrake 8.0 CD, but although it did nicely detect the Promise ATA100-RAID chipset, it could not handle/detect the raid-array. I am now downloading the MDK 8.1 ISOs, but I thought i would ask this first before I screw up this guy's disks :) The most common advise I found, was to use software-raid. Would it be possible to install windows and linux and tell them both to do software-raid (on the same disks)? Any pointers/help would be greatly appreciated. best regards, Leander Koorneef
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