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Old 05-20-2003, 05:40 AM   #1
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Install REDHAT 9 on RAID0 (HPT370)




I've been looking at Linux for a long time. The latest installations seem to be user friendly enough to have a try, so I created (boot)disks from the ISO images for RH9. Now I want to install it on a empty partition on my raid 0 harddrive. I want to be able to continue to use my Win 2k installation. After reading the requirements of RH 9 I'm beginning to doubt if this is
easy or safe. I already tried an install but it is not finding the unallocated diskspace.

My controller is a HPT370A (Dawicontrol DC100). The only hardrives are have are configured as a Raid 0 (disk striping) volume. Win 2k cannot boot from this drive without a proper driver. Half of the drive is currently partioned (as primary) and formatted as NTFS. The rest is unpartioned. I found drivers for HPT370A at highpoint, but the installation instructions are unclear about booting from a Raid 0. A CDROM burner is connected to the IDE controller of the mainboard and a CDROM to the second port on the mainboard.

My question is will I be able to install Linux in dual boot with Win2k without loosing Win2k partition, or will I get more trouble then Linux is worth trying (I can wait, until it matures). If it can be done.... how?

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Anco

Note I may be in for more problems with my Canon USB camera, ATI Radeon 7500 AIW, and dual pentium3. Please warn me if I'll get more then a fare share of trouble.
 
Old 05-21-2003, 08:20 AM   #2
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hi
i think first u partition ur harddisk with a utility to manage ur unpartition space.then try installing the linux when it ask where to install, then choose only on free space. u could also try with a cdrom. think this information may help u.

either this information helps or not mailme at purilokesh@rediffmail.com when got a solutions
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:39 AM   #3
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DualBoot has some tricky points, when using an IDE RAID device as boot media, but as far as i know, it's possible with the real 32bit windows OS. (but not the older ones like w95,w98,wme)

but in the end, to set up redhat9 on such a device is pretty easy.

0) create the HPT372 driver disc, as described in the Highpoint documentation.
1) put the redhat dics1 in cd-rom and boot up from it.
2) at the prompt before the very start of the redhat installation enter: linux text expert hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe
(the "text" you can leave away, if you'd like to install rh9 in graphical mode)
3) press enter and follow the instruction, when it comes to the driver disc.
4) if everything is correct you'll see something like "hpt....." as drivename in the partition manager, instead of the real drivername of your harddisks (like ibm...., or maxtor...)
If you see two drives or the real name of your disks, then something went wrong and you should stop your installation.
5) make your partitions as desired (auto make is not recommended
6) when it comes to the Boot loader, click the Advanced thing and go on. On the next screen you have to enter the following in the field: hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe
7) also somwhere here, you'll see a little hint abouth dualboot..please read it and make sure that it works with your OS and also select the correct place for your boot partition. (MBR)
8) now you can finish the installation as normal, thanks to the built-in support for HPT372 chipset.
 
Old 05-21-2003, 01:32 PM   #4
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I'll have a try and come back with the result. By the way what the hack does hde,f,g,h mean?

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Old 05-21-2003, 05:33 PM   #5
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well, as far as i know, and as far as i counted correct...
hde,hdf,hdg,hdh stands for the/a third and fourth IDE channel, divided into master/slave.

as far as i'm correct, you could also just use the command ide2=0 ide3=0
(ide0 and ide1 are the first two IDE channels, mostly the onboard ones, and on this you could have hda - hdd)

So, this command keps your RedHad from initializing these IDE channels, cause of this will somehow make problems with the ide-raid controller.

your IDE-RAID device will install as a SCSI drive, named sda in most cases
 
  


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