Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
have tried to do that with chmod, but it says the same thing.
How do I change the permission?
/Niklas
-Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Frn: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 07:31
Till: [EMAIL
Blomquist, Niklas wrote:
All,
I have a realy stupid problem.
I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some files from it. The
files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and system. I get the
error messages permission denied.
How do I change this?
/Niklas
You have ATA/100 out of the box, just enable HD optimisations.
RAID on IDE isn't really RAID but a software/firmware
implementation, very
bastardized. You should be able to run dual boot with a windows RAID and
linux on the non-RAID partitions, and linux will see the RAID
incorrectly so
That's an interesting answer... I've done kernel rebuilds quite a few times
with quite varied outcomes. It almost always works, yet very seldom does it
work better than it did before the rebuild. What I would like to see on my
Christmas wish list is if some talented individual could make up
Cool web pages! I was going to read the review, but got side tracked on how
nice the web designing was - just wanted to tell you.
Mike
i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and
some screen shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for
sure it
There are a couple of different reasons for this. First, make sure you're
not filling your harddrive to full - defrag re-arranges stuff by picking up
blocks and putting them at the end of the drive and moving stuff back - if
you're harddrive is more than %80 full, that makes the job much slower.
Ok, a few comments here...
Clicked OK to a few things and it comes to the partitioning tool.
I resized my 20 gig windows partition down to around 13 to 15 gigs, and
clicked "Auto Allocate" and it automatically created 4 partitions.( swap,
root, usr, home, or whatever order it was).
First, I
NEVER, I Say NEVER, run Scandisk.
It makes more errors than i fixes.
If your PC is going slow, format the drive or delete the partition, and
install Linux again!!
Microsoft Scandisk should NEVER have been invented..!
Ouch! I wouldn't go that far. Scandisk does work well, I have had it find
course, when I tried it with
my
windows machine, the damned thing went blue screen...rather
typical...was
that supposed to happen with the "plug in" required?
--Greg
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From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anybody hav
I have to grin about this all... Why is everyone so eager to get to the
next generation of Mandrake? Are so many people so unsatisfied with the
current version?
I'm happily chugging along on MDK7.1. My computers have never run so well
on any other OS... :)
Paul
Well, I have to say that the
When you see an install file with the '.sh' on the end, do 'sh
install.sh' from the command line instead of './install.sh' Does that
make sense?
Mike
Paul wrote:
It was Oct 10, 2000, 20:40, when Dennis Myers keyboarded:
Boot into Linux, log in as Root.
Go to /boot/grub, and run
Not anymore - go to www.netcraft.com
They're using Win2k with IIS 5.0
Mike
Talking about MS Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was
running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT
couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to
Actually no, it runs great! Also, it's only the word processor that's
running on wine, everything else in the suite has been ported.
Mike
In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
especially a full blown productivity app...
"F. E. Schaper" wrote:
I'll leave the Presidential debate open for others to discuss as I think
that is too far off topic for this list, but I will ask you this:
Do you want a President who, up until this point is most famous for
approving the execution of 2 women, and for picking his nose
path thd stick with it? Why does
outlook express
have to take over three seperate parts of the drive and who knows how much
of the registry.
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 8:17 PM
Subject: R
If you don't mind the lack of formatting, go to c:\windows\application
data\identities\{bunchofnumbersandletters}\microsoft\outlook express\
Find the .dbx file of the box you're looking for (inbox I assume) and open
it with a text editor - viola! It won't be in mailbox format, but it works
in a
William Becker wrote:
how do I get off this list?
How did you get on?
Mike
Well, remember that it's beta and things WILL be broken. If you're looking
for the latest features, wait a few more weeks and the final will be out.
If you like to tinker, than by all means, download away! I'm getting beta 2
right now, beta 1 was quite nice yet had a few problems with X among
Yes, I've experienced that, but it does seem a lot better in version 5.2.
It's funny though, I've used the windows version and it seems to work just
fine - go figure
Mike
your friend was exaggerating. Star office still crawls on 256M.
It crawls on
384! Click on the icon, get up, get a beer,
Where do you find VI for windows?
Thanks, Mike
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote:
Me too! I have even convinced my manager to let me have vi for winbloze on
my machine at work :)
Paul
YESYESYES
I agree!
Kathleen
Mark Weaver wrote:
naaah...it's just a real pain to use till
Quake3 runs great in linux. I've got it on two
machines. One is mandrake 7.02 with two voodoo2's x
3.3.6 and the other machine is mandrake 7.1 and a
voodoo5. I must say that the mouse works A LOT BETTER
in x 3.3.6. This is a known issue and has something
to do with DGA extensions and the way
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Mike Tracy Holt put to word:
7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it
didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade,
couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able
to
do) and a few
7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it
didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade,
couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to
do) and a few other minor details. When I did the fresh install however, it
I built an Athlon system about 3-4 months ago and started out with the Abit
motherboard which would NOT work even after trying 2 different boards. I
switched to Asus K7V and it works great! I haven't really heard anything
good about the onboard ATA100 nor abit for Athlon. My system is as
surprised really.
All he's got to do is boot the CDROM as one user has already pointed
out. This will start the installation process and he can then define the
Linux partitions that will be needed for the Mandrake install.
--
Mark
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
I'm not sure I
Which version are you looking for? I got my copy of Quake 2 at the
half-price bookstore for $14 but I got my copy of Q3 at the local computer
store for something like $40. You can also purchase from lokisoft. What
part of the world are you located in?
Mike
Anyone know where I can pick up a
The iso image already is bootable so you should be able to just use the iso
cd. I've just downloaded nero to try out on win2000 (because the idiots at
Adaptec don't feel they should have to support their software with win2k),
but with easy cd creator under win98 you just double click on the
the day that I can actually
use my copy of Q3 - I've even considered buying a new voodoo just so I can,
but I just built this system to add to my home network and that was a couple
thousand - my wife has confiscated my piggy bank for awhile...
Mike
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
Ah - you should be able
Alright - just don't let it happen again! as I type from my win2k box
Mike =)
Hi, forgive me for recommending anyone to upgrade to Windoze 98. I don't
know what came over me!
Bob Underwood
From: Jason Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
I was just at this site last night and thought it was pretty cool so I
signed up. At this point, I have to go in and reconfigure my router to
accept voice packets, but if you look in the faq's, they also talk about
linux solutions; granted those are for people using a linux box as a
firewall,
Larry, I think you missed the point of the original message. Sometimes
people need to just be honest that yes, Linux has made a lot of improvements
but still does have some of it's own problems. That's all it was - not a
slam to Linux or Mandrake or anyone else. Of course, everybody has their
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.0 (Air) [1.1.2 KDE, 2.2.14-15mdk
kernel].
There are 3 users on my system, "god", "goddess", and "penguin". root
god
can acess the audio devices (through audio mpeg player), however, goddess
and
penguin can not. All three of the users in group "god".
This was in response to Roman, not your message; surprise though, I do have
another response! g
--- Actually --- my point is that Linux users need to pick the right
hardware. Don't purchase a winmodem and then expect it to work under
Linux.
Why not? It's intel platform and if one OS can do
to go.
Mike (just my $.02...)
==
Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
==
which video card are you trying top use with quake3?
I actually had quite a bit of luck with that game so I
might be able top help you out.
Dacia
I've got a Matrox G400 max (dual head; 360 ramdac) with 32MB ram. I've
checked out the howto's, but have really not had any luck. Could you
Thanks! Mike
"Mike %26 Tracy Holt" wrote:
I'm curious, how did you do the correct hex editing? I've changed the
other
files without problem, but the one that changes the boot logo has
elluded
me. Is it a registry hack to change the picture? Is there a simple
way to
do that hex
\logos.sys c:\windows\logow.sys and, in
windows 98, c:\windows\logow.w98. You can edit them in paintshop or most
other image editors.
- Original Message -
From: Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] winblows
recommend "Halls" to get rid of that delicate
cough!
It sounds like it's spreading to others in the forum.
Dan
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] *delic
I completely agree with you; I've been frustrated for the last four months
that I haven't been able to play quake 3 even though the box said my card
was supported! I spent $40 on a game that I can't use and I've tried the
howto's and all with no luck. The closest I've been to getting X working
I'm curious, how did you do the correct hex editing? I've changed the other
files without problem, but the one that changes the boot logo has elluded
me. Is it a registry hack to change the picture? Is there a simple way to
do that hex change you speak of?
Thanks, Mike
Yes, I am greedy, can
It works. There's one thing...Why would you need another loader if Grub is
working?
It's just alternative to grub. If you have to use NT on the same box as
linux, you do have the option of using a pretty easy to configure bootloader
(NT bootloader). Since with any OS, there are several ways
Well, that's not entirely true.
1st. - Linux does have it's roots in networking and really shines in that
area; Apple is still the choice for graphics artists that I've heard from;
and Windows pretty much has the home desktop market.
2nd. - Linux versions of the popular Win games are known to
Upgrade to the latest version from cooker, I had the same problem and that
fixed it.
Mike
Anyone know if the GAIM that comes with 7.1 works, or has AOL sabotage the
configuration? My sons use AIM in W98 and it's about the only thing they
log
into windows for. If I can get GAIM working
If you're using XFree 4, just drop a copy of imwheel into your autostart
folder (and I believe you may have to chmod to get user permissions on the
file), when you startx, you'll have your scroll mouse.
Mike
Hi,
This one does not work fine for me even if I have XFree 4.0. I must use
imwheel
I believe if you go back to the 'newbie archive' from the mandrake home
page, you'll find a message in this thread that talks about newbies and the
importance of talking about every aspect of computing and how it compares to
the Linux- Mandrake model (not quite in those words). It's not
You can either remove the offending lines altogther, or if you want to save
the lines for future reference you can put the '#' sign before each line you
want ignored.
Mike
Michael,
What syntax do you use for commenting out lines in Linux?
Registered Linux User #179293
Keep your penguin
AOL is the only ISP, (if you can call them that) that cares whether you're
running Linux, BeOS, FreeBSD Windows...or whatever. Just my two
cents. suggesting that some ISP's are friendly to Linux and some aren't is
kinda strange since a lot of the ISP's are running either Linux or a Unix
Nickolas Koehne wrote:
You're right. All windows OS's before 95 and NT were just GUI's for
MS-DOS.
The easiest way for this to make sense to most people is that you had to
install MS-DOS before you could actually install Windows. On newer
versions
of Windows, you need not install DOS
Hi Mike,
This may sound stupid but is this all done from within Linux /sbin
directory?
In must have a programming block but the following command:
dd if=/dev/hda(x) of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
Do I log in as 'root' and change directories to /sbin, and then type in:
dd if=/dev/hda8
Great! It worked. I forgot to comment out a couple of lines. However,
since
I was using Grub, I was wondering why I would need two different boot
loaders.
It was definitely a learning experience in boot loading.
Roman
Well, you need a boot loader for linux to load (just like NT needs a
I have Partition Magic 5.0 installed in windows...
and have used it to re-partition my parts...
if I un-install windowswill this screw up lilo...on
the ext2 boot partor will this screw up anything else...
something is wrong with windows...and i wish to re-install
it...
after
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
I don't think that you can because you're actually mounting one block
device. You would somehow have to create two partitions on the one
block device and I think you would be running into to many problems.
Why not just make the whole thing dos and you would
Thanks' Roger. Now the big problem is to get get BootMagic to show
Linux.
I still cannot configure it with Linux.
Which version of windows are you using? If you are using NT, I can tell you
a quick way to set up the NT bootloader to boot linux. It works great and
if you've got NT on your
Just install the latest netscape rpms from cooker and it will have
128bit encryption (netscape isn't releasing 56bit? anymore)
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS
Mike
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Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL
Thanks Paul!
Mike
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
Hello all,
I installed some new RPMS which changed my desktop to icewm and in
haste, I did switchdesk kde to get my old desktop back. Now I would
like to go back to icewm and play with it a little - is there a quick
way
Romanator wrote:
Hi,
I know Paul has answered this briefly but... Has any one been
successfull in adding an entry to the Boot.ini file of WIndows NT4? I
would like to see if NT4 will allow me to boot to Linux?
I always thought that Windows cannot see the Linux partitions.
Regards,
If you're able to connect some kind of adapter to get files from your floppy
drive, then you would just mount the floppy drive and load the pictures that
way. gphoto is just for connecting a camera to the computer and downloading
pictures directly from that camera.
Mike
In trying to configure
I haven't tried, but I don't think it's possible because AOL uses their own
proprietary browser to access their services. Ask them if they will give
you dns numbers (don't tell them it's for linux) and a dial up number though
and you might be able to set it up with kppp or equivalent. You might
Victor Richardson wrote:
Are there any extra steps to updating the kernel other than running the
Mandrake Updater?
Also, /etc/lilo had a section for the new kernels, but included a
commented line that said something like "# Add using install-kernel".
Which, of course, I did not do
Wow! Take it easy, eh? I think it was just question.
Mike
The idea of **NOT** dropping everything you choose to **DELETE** into the
recycle/trash bin, is that the user is **SMART** enough to judge whether
he/she
really wants to delete that particular file. The same idea behind the
KDE
Hello all,
I installed some new RPMS which changed my desktop to icewm and in
haste, I did switchdesk kde to get my old desktop back. Now I would
like to go back to icewm and play with it a little - is there a quick
way to do this without hand-editing the config files to point to it?
Patti Wavinak wrote:
I downloaded Netscape 4.74 gzip compressed Communicator tar archive. I
then uncompressed and extracted the tar file and ran ./ns-install. It
showed me which directory it was installing this in and per instructions
I then ran "cd the_directory_I_just_installed_to
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
Okay. I d/l'ed Knapster, and am happy to report that it does allow me to
logon. However, I can't access any MP3's when I search for them, because
I always get the message:
Can't download filename as there is no listener connection.
Anyone know what that is? I
Melinda Shoop wrote:
Hello All,
Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few
days?
I keep getting a server busy/unable to connect message from NS.
I am unable to access it from site links, as well as from a search engine. I'm
having no trouble with
Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
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Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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the whole
thing as it will probably wrap to window width).
You can also go to www.linuxberg.com and do a search for just about
anything you can think of.
Mike
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Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
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Nickolas Koehne wrote:
No, they shall not be turned off at midnight. There's been a reprieve!
-Darkeyes
I heard! I went straight over, signed up and downloaded some tunes!
Mike
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Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and actually
fork over the cash to help support those guys that work so hard on this
product.
Mike
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Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight...
another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings
deciding which Porche to drive to work today =(
Well, their execution smile
readme, then about 5 minutes later I had numlock on full time.
New version of Mandrake (7.1) defaults to this on setup.
Mike
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Mike Tracy Holt
Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS
Mike
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Kirkland, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
I have been using KDE for over a year now, beginning with Red Hat 6.0,
then Linux Mandrake 6.1, then Linux Mandrake 7.0 and now Linux Mandrake
7.1. Very pleased, all in all.
Yet, one thing that continues to mystify me is the Trash can. My KDE
1.1.1
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
Is it possible to mount a Zip drive with 2 filesystems? In other words,
both ext2 and vfat? I have mine setup where you (as root) can
right-click on the Zip icon and pick either fs type. However, my user
account can not do this, because you must be su to use mount.
Use you mouse cursor, move to the header line of the column, where it
lists the
files' names. At the right edge of the file header is a line. Position
mouse
cursor over that, hold down Left-Click, and drag to to right. Voila!
Larger
area available for your files' names.
Thank you sir.
Everett wrote:
Hello
I am running my box with both ms windows and linux.
I have set most of my hard drive for linux but know I need to setup
something on the ms windows side that needs more space than I have.
Can any one tell me of a safe way to resize my partitions to give more space
Ran Hooper wrote:
This list take a dive or what?
Regards,
Ran Hooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike
Jeff Malka wrote:
During Mandrake's install, there was a nice GUI tool for creating partitions
and mount points. Can this tool be used after install to create new
partitions instead of fdisk? If not, is there another gui tool that can be
used?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Malka wrote:
I have noticed that sometimes Mandrake 7.1 installs grub and other times
lilo. Which install does which and how do I change from one to the other
after install?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
If you've got your system up
Ian McLeod wrote:
Has anyone successfully installed the Galeon web browser?
How did they do it? What did they install?
What is it like?
Regards,
Ian McLeod
I haven't tried it, but I did a search on freshmeat to see what you were
talking about and I see that it's based on
Richard Kim wrote:
Could anybody give me a full description about what Reiser Filesystem
is? (Or at least give me a site to go to.)
http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/
Does anyone out there use gFTP? If so, is there a way to customize the
windows so that you can see the whole file name? I like to get the
latest packages from cooker and it's easiest to just browse the site
with the 'explorer' type window; my problem is that the window isn't
wide enough to give
Hmm, this does not fit. Have you ever even looked at the size of a
HTML mail vs. a text only mail? Right now I remember of one of those
unsubscribe emails. It was 26 lines big, compared to a text only
unsubscribe email of only 3 lines.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
that you can optionally install for Linux. Partition Magic identifies
that
type as '85' which I was wondering myself - hexadecimal??
Nope, that's not true. At least not according to the file system type
listing
I'm not sure if this forum is moderated, but isn't this whole topic taking
focus off of why everyone is here? I believe it was said once that Plain
Text is to be used in this forum. If so, then lets just go with that?
I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, just the whole Text v. HTML
NO! Please don't kill the ...THREAD! It deserves to live just as any other
thread! N!!!
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 182496
LOL!!!
I'm sorry I don't use VI, but I've read something about not including it
anymore and that it's actually some kind of enhanced VIM? (The added
colors, etc that you're talking about). Anyway, I've just searched
linuxberg and can't find a download, but possibly there's a way to turn off
the syntax
I agree, I've been using Partition Magic for about a year now and it works
great! There is another option however; GNU parted. I haven't had the guts
to try it, but you can download it from the Mandrake cooker and give it try.
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:05:22PM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:
Linux partitions then PM will see them all as 1 Type 85 partition and
you
will not be make any changes to the partitions using PM. You will
instead
Or you can simply change the partition type of your extended partition
Hello again,
I've been reading the posts on this subject (as I'm sure most have), and
they do seem to have a common couple of threads that I would like to give a
quick comment on.
As I've already said, I do prefer HTML myself but there is a difference
between HTML enabled and creating a web
You have to edit the XF86Config-4 file if you're using 4.0 and then you need
to follow the syntax rules that they are using, ie:
Option"ZAxisMapping""4 5"
Mike
I tried to insert into XF86Config the following statement to get my
wheelmouse
to work
ZAxisMapping 4 5
X won't
I agree with you about the HTML; I've found that some people can be agitated
by the use of it. I think it is unreasonable to suggest that just because
*some* people (for sentimental or whatever reasons) want to cling to archaic
text only mail readers, that nobody should be able to use HTML.
No problems with Quake 2 (using software
rendering), OpenGL is still quite new to linux and I've not yet been able to get
it working under Quake 3 which does not support software rendering. My
install was just loggin in as root and running the install script. I'm
using a Matrox G400 max
If you have the extra time and want to mess around with the icons yourself,
you can go to the 'real' website and right click on the 'Real.com' graphic
in the upper left corner and save the image to your $user account. Next,
open the image in the gimp and find the 'scale' tool (works a lot like
That's great to hear (!), do you possibly know of any reference to that on
the web? I'd like to share that with some co-workers, but I'm afraid
without proof it could seem sorta like an 'urban legend'. I tried searching
both cnet and zdnet with no luck, it would be nice to find a page of
I'm not sure if this answers your question, but I'm using Corel WordPerfect
Office 2000 which comes with paradox and quattro pro - there's also
Applixware for Linux that is supposed to be quite powerful.
Mike
Anyone know of some decent business software for Linux.
Specifically I would like to
Yep, I've resized all over the place using PM 4; just bought PM 5, haven't
tried with that one yet.
Mike
Greetings!
Is it safe to increase my Mandrake 7.1 ext2 partition using PartitionM
Magic under Win98?
If not, how can I do it without destroying my present ext2 partition?
Thank you
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=hotmail.comExamine=Wait..
Another great one! Thanks again!
Mike =)
'format' - any thoughts?
Thanks, Mike
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, there is an
option on the 'custom' install when you choose which filesystem you want
to use, that allows for raid - I would imagine that it's as simple as
picking the disks to use and letting the installer do the rest.
Hope that helps, Mike
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Kirkland, WA
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