likewhoa Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 i can't read that for $H!7 buddy, please take a better snapshot or write it down, lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzled Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 That was the best I could do. I tried to save it to floppy, but there's an internal error. I tried to copy, but as soon as you leave that program, it wont paste in to the browser. There's just way too much there to type. I guess what frustrates me the most is that with XP it was just F6 & a floppy to set up RAID. It shouldn't be this hard to set up hardware correctly. I settled on Mint for the laptop. So far, so good. It loaded the OS & then updated itself. All of the plug-ins for Firefox loaded w/o being asked, or having to be added manually. The only question is will the wireless work? I'm going to try it out in a public WIFI area tonight. If it works, then I would definitely recommend the OS to another newbie. I did add Mint to an older PC that I assembled recently from old parts laying about. The OS had no problem with the SATA hard drive or any of the other hardware present. It works like a champ on that system, but again, it's not a RAID set up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzled Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 I'm really surprised to find there isn't a distro that combines what Fedora offers (partitioning for RAID during set up), & what Mint offers (video card usability from CD). Fedora loads the NV SATA driver, & then sees the (2) 80GB HD's as (1) 160 GB HD. It then goes to a scrambled screen on reboot after loading the OS. The video drivers aren't adequate. On the other hand, Mint sees (2) 80 GB HD's, but will only load the OS to one of them. It doesn't do RAID set up, but it can load the proper video drivers after reboot when loading the OS. I wonder when someone will combine both features to CD/DVD? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzled Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 I managed to figure out how to copy & paste the error report. I have no idea what any of this means. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 950, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 250, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 867, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 140, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 103, in turnOnFilesystems thefsset.createLogicalVolumes(instPath) File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1477, in createLogicalVolumes entry.device.setupDevice(chroot) File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 2080, in setupDevice raise SystemError, "pvcreate failed for %s" % (volume,) SystemError: pvcreate failed for Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 I managed to figure out how to copy & paste the error report. I have no idea what any of this means. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 950, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 250, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 867, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 140, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 103, in turnOnFilesystems thefsset.createLogicalVolumes(instPath) File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1477, in createLogicalVolumes entry.device.setupDevice(chroot) File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 2080, in setupDevice raise SystemError, "pvcreate failed for %s" % (volume,) SystemError: pvcreate failed for That is a crash from the "installer helper" tool that you are using which is called Anaconda, my suggestion is to manually setup your partition and arrays from the command line as there is a bug with the GUI installer. the tool you will use to create the arrays is called,.. MDADM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzled Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 You're right about the installer. It's also the same problem that is present on Gentoo 2007.0. I was looking in to the RAID feature of the installer, & came up with a curious option. It allows you to load the OS on to one HD, & then copy it to the second HD to create the RAID array. I thought that might be the solution. I disconnected the NVIDIA RAID option in the BIOS, & then tried to load the OS to a single HD. The installer crashed again. I then tried to load Gentoo, but the installer on that distro doesn't have the RAID feature. The installer also crashed on that distro. It looks like Anaconda is buggy. I'm going to disconnect one HD, & then do some research in to formatting the other HD manually. Hopefully I can format the one HD, & then the installer will allow me to use the feature to create a RAID array from the first HD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 follow my gentoo guide here on this forum, and at the section were you would create your partitions, create them however you want. example, here is my first drive setup with 4 partitions. Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 4 32098+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 5 491 3911827+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 492 29062 229496557+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 29063 30401 10755517+ fd Linux raid autodetect notice the "fd"? well that's the partition type for a Linux RAID partition. after you have setup this first drive scheme, you can copy the whole partition table to other drives by running the following command. sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb command above copies the partition scheme from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, this saves you the time spend making the partitions by hand. now that your partitions are setup, you need to figure out what RAID level you want to run. if you plan on running RAID0 you would type modprobe raid0 for raid4,5 or 6 modprobe raid456 this example assumes you are setting up a raid1 mirror array for /boot, since /boot can't be on any array that's stripped.with 4 hard drives. mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 this one is setting up a raid6 for your root partition "/" on 4 hard drives mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3 now a raid0 stripped for the remaining partition space, which i suggest you setup LVM2 on. mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md2 --level=0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc4 /dev/sdd4 after you can check the status of the raid arrays with. cat /proc/mdstat or watch -n1 $(cat /proc/mdstat) and when your system is setup, you can save your array information so that the mdadm utility knows how to start your arrays. mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after this is all done, just continue with the guide as normal, and at the part where you would setup your /etc/fstab. instead of /dev/sda1 for /boot, you would use /dev/md0. your swap partitions don't need to be raid arrays, as you can just let the linux kernel handle the stripping for you. a sample /etc/fstab with a swap setup on 4 drives would look like this. /dev/sda2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0/dev/sdb2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdc2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdd2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 before you reboot after finishing my guide, make sure you added RAID support in the "Device Drivers" section of the kernel. I plan on adding RAID,LVM,DM-CRYPT to the guide soon, I'm just lazy, now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzled Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Being an absolute newbie, I have no idea what to do with all that. I did however try a trial version of Xandros Pro 4.1 yesterday. Drum roll please It immediately recognized the NVIDIA chipset & the RAID array!! So, I was able to install the OS to an array. Now the only thing left is to find out if the video cards are in SLI or not. Any suggestions on how to discover this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 install the nvidia-drivers package and setup X windows to utilize it. google Xorg Nvidia Guide. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazypoloc Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Have you installed your Nvidia drivers? Because it will definitely not work unless you have done that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazypoloc Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Haha Beat me to it man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzled Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 install the nvidia-drivers package and setup X windows to utilize it. google Xorg Nvidia Guide. OK. Will look into that. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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