On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:26:28 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:

> Thanks for the offer, but I won't be able to make it to the meeting.  I was able
> to make some progress by attaching an unused external SCSI drive to one of the
> Adaptec cards.  I set up the partitions on the external drive how I'm gonna want
> the array setup.  I'm hoping that I can then just dd one partition to another
> after building a working kernel with the Mylex controller builtin.

This is what I was going to suggest (except using an IDE drive instead of
an external SCSI drive).  Finish the install so you can play around with
the system without the confining straight-jacket install program.  Don't
bother with dd, use cp -a instead, then the partitions don't have to be
exactly the same.  Then you can choose any kernel you want to get the RAID
array operational.

Study up on GRUB.  You will need to understand it in order to tell GRUB
where you've moved the new kernel and root partition for booting.

	-Paul