How do you setup a raid 5 server?

[der.hans]

Am 21. Nov, 2002 schw=E4tzte tickticker so:

> I've never had to do an install on a raid set before.

Once you have it built and the driver loaded it's just a hard drive.

> I wanna put mandrake on it ( it's my flavor of choice), and just haven't =
the
> foggiest notion of how to go about installing this.  Knoppix saw the ide =
but
> not the raid set.  started a mandrake install, and it has a heart attack =
when
> it's loading and says something about destroying the data on a hard drive=
,
> this is after i see the ide drive detect and load so i'm just assuming it=
's
> the raid set that's making throw this hairy fit.
>
> question:  what are the down and dirty steps to starting this setup, or d=
o you
> know a great reference somewhere to help me do this?
>
> I would really like to keep the raid card (adaptec 2100) and the drives i=
n
> raid 5 configuration.  I will be sure to post my notes or a how to: when =
I am
> successful.

Duriing bios boot it should ask you to do a <ctrl>-v or <ctrl>-a to get int=
o
the card firmware setup.

Setup the raid there.

Boot the mandrake install. The drive might be under something weird like
/dev/ida/, but it's probably /dev/sda.

If you can't see it, go to the load modules portion of the install and
install the module for the raid card.

If that doesn't work, use debian and I can be equally non-helpful :).

ciao,

der.hans
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