On Friday 20 October 2006 18:45, Tom Craddock Jr wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Got a new AMD dual core mobot and it has 6 SATA (looka to be Linux
> supported in FC5 and Suse) The mobo is the Asus M2N32-DL Deluxe, looks
> like only lm sensors and wifi wont work, I an deal. I plan on
> mirroring these drives, but it 6 SATA x 500GB and 1 x 500 GB HDD. Ive
> never set up a RAID before, but the info in the mobo manual has shown me
> what to expect. Is this how you set one up, use the BIOS tools? If
> not, how? I want FC5_x64 , Suse 10.?_x64, Windows XP Pro 32 and 64 bit,
> so 4 OS, which I think it can take, I hope at least, largest undertaking
> of the sort Ive made. If I want the boot loader ,lilo I think it is, in
> FC5-X64 to be the one that lets me choose from the other 3, in what
> order should I install OS'?
It might be a good idea if you reread your email and fix the typo's as there
are some things you say which is very hard to understand. Like 'I an deal'.
Regarding RAID, in your case that can be done from the BIOS when it supports
it. Of course Linux does support software RAID too, but usually hardware RAID
is faster and invisible to the OS when done on hardware.
About the boot order, usually you want to install windows first. It wants to
be on the first partition on the first drive. With Grub boot loader you can
make it look like the first partition on the first drive even if it's not.
(Not sure if Lilo supports that.)
To have multiple Linux installs on the same drive you need to make a change
to /etc/fstab. Once you have installed windows and are configuring the
partitions for the first Linux install, make notes of how you configure them.
In other words you want to know the /dev and mount point.
Then when done with the install, edit /etc/fstab and replace all the LABEL
references with the actual /dev location.
The reason for this is when you boot up with two installs you can confuse the
bootup routine as to which partitions it should use.
(I prefer grub over lilo as it's far more flexible and only needs to find its
config file to work. Easy to change on the fly if you need to and so on.)
--Steve Szmidt
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