steve szmidt wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> 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,
Thanks, Ive been holding off on installing any OS yet, been getting the
machine put together. I'll take your advice and install the Wins' OS'
first, then install my 'nix flavors.
And sorry about the typos, the one that was pointed out, it was meant to
mean, 'I Can deal'. Other typos were just from my own laziness and not
checking out my email, I can see there were quite a few in there, damn
my English teachers.
Tom
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