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So i running currently with XP on a 150 GB IDE RAID (made from a 80 Gb and 100 Gb drive) ..

 

anyone have any experience with installing Linux on this board (preferably FC3 or Suse or Debian) and having it recognise the RAID drive ? I was hoping to be able to "resize" it with something like qparted and dual boot FC3 and XP.

 

how well are these boards supported in Linux in general ?

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I dual boot xp and fc3 but i dont have a raid setup, check the documentation on the distro and see what it says on raids. as long as you have the most recent version i bet it will detect a raid setup automatically.

 

For dualbooting either use a seperate HD dedicated to linux, seeing how you have 80+100 thats not likely as linux only needs 5-10gb.

 

Or use a windows partitioning program, i use partition magic 8, and create an unformated partition, dont do anything to it no filesystem or anything. Boot the linux install and tell it to use the unformated space.

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thanks for the reply .. i am going to check for the RAID Driver availability in FC3 .. or other distros .. i know knoppix see's the disks separately..

 

glad to know that at least FC3 will work with the rest of the boards hardware.

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