[SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-28 Thread James Gregory
Hey guys, Quick qn: I need a Linux distribution I can install and get RAID-1 (software, PATA drives) out of the box. What are my options? IIRC, Ubuntu was not able to do this the last time I tried. Is that still the case? Pretty flexible on most things -- just want it to support my not-too-exotic

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Quick qn: I need a Linux distribution I can install and get RAID-1 > (software, PATA drives) out of the box. What are my options? IIRC, Ubuntu > was not able to do this the last time I tried. Is that still the case? No, Ubuntu has been able to do this for a while. Not entirely sure if the GUI

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread James Gregory
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:08 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Quick qn: I need a Linux distribution I can install and get RAID-1 > > (software, PATA drives) out of the box. What are my options? IIRC, Ubuntu > > was not able to do this the last time I tried. Is that still the case? > > No, Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread Ben
I've set up a couple of CentOS 4 boxes with this through the GUI installer. On 8/29/07, James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Quick qn: I need a Linux distribution I can install and get RAID-1 > (software, PATA drives) out of the box. What are my options? IIRC, > Ubuntu was not

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/08/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Quick qn: I need a Linux distribution I can install and get RAID-1 > > (software, PATA drives) out of the box. What are my options? IIRC, > Ubuntu > > was not able to do this the last time I tried. Is that still the case? > > No, Ubunt

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread Jeremy Visser
Amos Shapira wrote: > If the Debian Etch installer is any indication about Ubuntu's then I'm > pretty sure it's possible through the GUI installer. Debian's installer looks like it's just a GUI frontend to the text-based installer. Exactly the same, just drawing with GTK+ widgets instead of ncurse

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/08/2007, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > If the Debian Etch installer is any indication about Ubuntu's then I'm > > pretty sure it's possible through the GUI installer. > > Debian's installer looks like it's just a GUI frontend to the text-based > installe

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

2007-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> That's interesting to know, I just remembered an impression that Ubuntu's > installer is just Debian's with maybe some Ubuntu-specific tweaks. The text based one *is* d-i, and it will likely have the ugly generated GUI that Debian's has at some stage. The LiveCD installer is a very different b