Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gordon Smith]

Almost right.  It is an Abit KT7a-Raid.

At 12:19 16/09/01 -0500, Gregory Nowak said:
>What motherboard do you have?
>Is it by any chance an Abit be6-II?
>If so, then the bare.i slackware boot disk doesn't
>have built-in support for the hpt366 on-board controllers.
>Greg
>
>
>On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:16:33AM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote:
> > Hi Frank.  The drive should be bootable, as SuSE works just fine with
> > it.  Having said that, I use an external boot manager at present.  But 
> even
> > this won't work if my BIOS isn't set right.  Yeah, my motherboard has 4
> > on-board IDE channels, permitting a maximum of 8 devices.  But I take your
> > point regarding the kernels.  Again, going back to SuSE, that does support
> > it directly.  As I said in a previous message, if I could only get hold of
> > a kernel for SuSE with Speakup I'd be happy to stick with it.
> >
> > At 06:48 16/09/01 -0400, Frank Carmickle said:
> >
> > >You didn't say you had two controllers.  That makes life a bit different.
> > >First off the kernel needs to have support build in for your second
> > >controller.  well really your third and fourth controller most likely.  I
> > >do believe that slackware has support for the promise controllers built in
> > >to the bare.i boot disk.  If not this could be a bit of a problem assuming
> > >that is the kind of controller you have.  In either case it is probable
> > >that the drive that is in question is really /dev/hde.
> > >
> > >If you need anymore help just call or write.  It could get a little tricky
> > >to set this up and boot off of that drive.  Unless your thinking of
> > >booting from a floppy the lilo config to boot this setup will prove to 
> be a
> > >learning experience for you.
> > >
> > >--
> > >      Frank Carmickle
> > >phone:     412 761-9568
> > >email:     frankiec at dryrose.com
> > >
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> > Kind regards, Gordon Smith.
> >
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