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Askadar

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Registered: 2004-08-10

Posts: 10

Installation on hardware raid?

We are going to replace an aging RHEL 4.0 installation (too slow, too old) for a development project. As I have good experience with using Arch at home, I suggested using Arch as the development platform (up-to-date dev packages!).

The system is a 4 CPU Dell Poweredge sever with hardware raid. As I have never installed Linux on raid before I am not sure whether I have to follow any special steps. The hardware seems to be supported alright, this is the output of lsmod on RHEL:

Module                  Size  Used by
md5                     4736  1 
ipv6                  229792  18 
autofs4                19076  0 
i2c_dev                11008  0 
i2c_core               23040  1 i2c_dev
ipt_REJECT              7552  1 
ipt_LOG                 7040  2 
ipt_limit               3072  2 
ipt_state               2560  3 
ip_conntrack           43076  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          3584  1 
ip_tables              18688  5 ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,ipt_limit,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mirror              22236  0 
dm_mod                 56708  1 dm_mirror
button                  7440  0 
battery                 9604  0 
ac                      5508  0 
ohci_hcd               20880  0 
tg3                    79876  0 
floppy                 55056  0 
sg                     35360  0 
ext3                  114952  3 
jbd                    58392  1 ext3
megaraid_mbox          34832  4 
megaraid_mm            14128  1 megaraid_mbox
aic7xxx               143288  0 
sd_mod                 16768  5 
scsi_mod              113804  4 sg,megaraid_mbox,aic7xxx,sd_mod

The disk shows up as /dev/sda on RHEL.

I plan on using the 0.8beta ISOs for installation. Is there anything special (compared to an IDE installation) that I need to take into account?

Thanks in advance,
Askadar

Askadar

Member

Registered: 2004-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: Installation on hardware raid?

Just for the record: It was no different from a normal install and worked like a charm. The 0.8 beta1 installer detected all the modules correctly, so getting the RAID to work was a no-op.

Thanks for such a great distro!