Tell me if I am making any mistakes here please. The order that I will 
go in is something like:

1. Install debian with (assuming 1 gig =1024, other wise I will reduce 
the linux native by an appriot amount):
sda  1 /boot 50  MB (me thinks that 100 is a bit excessive
      2 /     871 MB ext2
*    3 swap  103 MB swap

sdb  1 swap  153 MB swap
*    2       871 MB ext2

*my sun has 288 MB ram so I do not think that I will be doing a ton of 
swapping

2. Convert ext2 into a ext3 (I have instructions on how to do that 
somewhere)

3. Compile a new kernel as the one that comes with debian it is a 2.2 I 
think, and it does not have smp or software raid support (I think).

4. Do whatever is needed as per the instructions to make sda2 and sdb2 
operate on raid 0.


Questions:
I can just use the normal 2.4.21 from kernel.org right?
I have read that that I need to create a special partition on the boot 
drive that is the entire size of the drive in addition to the other 
partitions in order for it boot. I was smoking crack when I read this right?


Thanks all.
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