Hello! I'm going to be getting a new server ready. It is a Pentium II @ 350 MHz with 256 Mb of RAM, with a BusLogic BT-948 SCSI controller driving both an HP C1554A DDS-3 SCSI DAT drive as well as a CD-ROM. In addition, it has a Mylex AccelRAID 250 card driving four Quantum Fireball 9 Gb drives, of which I would like to run in a RAID 5 configuration. I'd like to install 5.2 and then upgrade to kernel 2.2 when it moves beyond pre-releases. This would give me hardware RAID with access to 27 Gb of available storage. If the machine is booted into DOS (with CD-ROM access) and then the Red Hat 5.2 installation program is booted with 'ezstart', the machine does detect the BusLogic BT-948 controller but it doesn't seem to want to find the AccelRAID controller. Apparently, the AccelRAID is supported under Linux, using driver software available from www.dandelion.com. However, I'm wondering if this support is likely not available in the 5.2 CD-ROM. If that is the case, how can I install Linux under this configuration? (Kind of a catch-22). I see two possible solutions: 1. Purchase an additional hard drive and run it off the BusLogic BT-948 and install Linux onto that. Once installed I would download the necessary drivers and get RAID going with a custom kernel. I would then migrate, say, /var, /usr, and /home onto the RAID drives. 2. Somehow create a custom boot disk that has support for a native install of 5.2 onto a RAID 5 partition. Am I correct in my suppositions? Is there a way of doing the 2nd option? Is there a better workaround that I can use? I have looked at RAID documentation as found on the net but they seem to cover mostly software-only RAID solutions. The writeups on hardware solutions, including documentation from the dandelion site itself, seems to be lacking in content. Thanks in advance for any information you could provide. --------------< LINUX: The choice of a GNU generation. >-------------- Steve Frampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3srf
