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I am about to install Red Hat for the very first time, can I do this on a partition of a disk witch is connected to a third party Raid controller card? Or does Linux need its own harddrive?
Yes you can, linux does not need it's own harddrive. However it might be easier if you know the name of the device first, so if you have something like Knoppix you might wanna plug that in to see what it calls your device.
Yes, it should Sorry for the confusion. What I mean is that the device probably won't be called "/dev/hda1" such as the standard IDE devices are called for Primary/Secondary Master/Slave on the regular IDE controller.
Knoppix is a CD Based distro that helps a newcomer get a feel for linux before diving into it head first. It also helps when you are stuck/broken.
Knoppix is cool enough that I suggest you do. It works... well it just does You place the cd (after you burn it) in your CDROM drive, reboot, make sure your bios is set to boot from CD first, then watch Knoppix do it's magic.
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RAID Controller Card?
Sorry for the confusion. What I mean is that the device probably won't be called "/dev/hda1" such as the standard IDE devices are called for Primary/Secondary Master/Slave on the regular IDE controller.
