On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Scott Dier wrote: > * Timothy Wilson <wilson at visi.com> [010312 20:24]: > > Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 1.0.6) > > Found 1 controller(s) > > cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array) > > cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120 > > cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing > > ida/c0d0: ida/c0d0p1 ida/c0d0p2 < ida/c0d0p5 ida/c0d0p6 > ida/c0d0p3 > > autodetecting RAID arrays > > autorun ... > > ... autorun DONE. > > First, do what i did and read the bug against the installer, 90 days > old. I'm doubting it will be fixed because the push for a new install > system is in full force. :| > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=78981&repeatmerged=yes Thanks for the tip, Scott. I'll bet this will work, but I won't have time to work on it until after school today. I used the Compaq system erase utility to wipe the drives and get ready to install a fresh system. Now when I boot the Debian floppy I only get the > > cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120 not > > cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing > > ida/c0d0: ida/c0d0p1 ida/c0d0p2 < ida/c0d0p5 ida/c0d0p6 > ida/c0d0p3 Presumably, this is because the system isn't yet partitioned. My plan, then, would be to create the devices in /dev/ida manually anyway assuming that they'll be needed later. Correct? (This is according to the bug report cited.) This leads me to another question. How should I partition this beast? The server will mainly be doing listserv and http serving. I'll be using Zope which I'll compile from source. The Debian Zope package puts it in /var/lib, but I'll probably put it in /usr/local. The Zope files could potentially grow pretty large. Several GBs would probably be a good starting point. I may also put PostgreSQL on this machine someday. Debian puts the html files in /var/www. The system is a 933 MHz PIII w/ 640 MB RAM and two 18 GB SCSI disks in a RAID1 configuration (straight mirroring). Should I leave some of the disk unpartitioned? What would the professional admins in the group recommend? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/