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    Linux Install on XPS Raid?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by dpackham, Aug 11, 2008.

  1. dpackham

    dpackham Notebook Enthusiast

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    im trying to install linux.. any linux on my 1730 with 2 raid striped HD's and it only find seperate disks and not the raid. any ideas?

    Dave P
     
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    Forte NBR's Supreme Angel

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    You have to configure the raid with linux. The configuration is located here:

    /etc/raidtab

    Configure raid-level, etc. based on what you have and you should be set. If you need help with configuration, specify what distro your using and what raid level you are using and myself or someone else would be happy to help out.
     
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    If you are dual-booting between Windows and Linux, you should look into dmraid.
     
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    I already have XP on the raid so I would like to use the hardware raid. so /etc/raidtab is out. do you know of any distros that use DMRAID during install?

    Dave P
     
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    Fedora and Gentoo both have dmraid, SUSE also has it. They are all fairly complex installations though Gentoo should be slightly easier as they do have a text based installation that uses dmraid on install.
     
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    Even Fedora 9 install see both /dev/SDA and /dev/SDB as seperate disks. which are really raid'd in the bios into one big volume with the Intel Raid controller. not looking good so far
     
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    ciao guys, i just got my XPS 1730, X9000, 4GB RAM, with
    *RAID0, 186.3+186.3 GB* and want to install openSUSE11 on it.

    it sees the raid partition but tells me that i cannot resize or modify
    those. it puts everything on /dev/sda and proposes to install linux on /dev/sdb which has the extent of one of the two disks.

    any hint? does it harm windows if i go ahead?

    THANX!!!

    carlo
     
    cbacciga, Aug 22, 2008
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    and my configuration looks like PRALIX. let's get this done!

    carlo
     
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    Still not working.. anyone have any ideas?

    Dave P
     
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    anyone got this done? Fedora 11 of Ubuntu 9 both dont work on installing on RAID 0 drives in my 1730

    someday maybe

    Dave P
     
    dpackham, Apr 6, 2009
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