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    linux on DELL 1730 with Raid0

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by cbacciga, Aug 22, 2008.

  1. cbacciga

    cbacciga Newbie

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    ciao,

    i've the following system:

    Dell XPS M1730 smoke grey, X9000, 4GB RAM, 8800GTX SLI, 2x200 RAID0, Blu-Ray Writer...Vista Home Premuim SP1

    and want to install linux on that, shrinking but not eliminating Vista.
    The only linux version i found which sees the Raid at installation is
    openSUSE 11, which sees the raid but proposes to create an /dev/sdb partition with the size of one of the two disks where installing linux. i'd be fine with that, but i don't know what happens to windows this way, and also i'd prefer to do it using raid.

    anybody did the same? any hint?

    thanx, carlo
     
    cbacciga, Aug 22, 2008
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  2. dpackham

    dpackham Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nope. prolly not going to happen on Raid as far as I can tell
     
    dpackham, Oct 17, 2008
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  3. Pralix

    Pralix Notebook Consultant

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    I have Gentoo installed on my M1730 on the RAID system. You have to boot the install media with the dodmraid option for it to detect and configure the RAID array. That might also work in other distros too.
     
    Pralix, Oct 17, 2008
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