but I think I'll miss this one this year

[intjonathan]

holy crap I've done nothing but geek ever since I got off school. Incredible. In case you were wondering who died, it's just that geeky stuff makes for lousy journal entries. I'm sure you DON'T want to hear about my many linux misadventures or rebuilding my windows install because I had to switch array controllers and how no good linux distro supports said controller blah blah blah. Cripes, this is boring to do, last thing I want to do is write about it. Anyway, Two Towers on Thursday, yay, I have all my christmas shopping to do and a total inability to complete it on time (can you wait till January? Just a few weeks is all I'll need...), I'm working weird hours and too many of them, how come I'm on break and I don't feel any less busy? I love christmas but I hate what people do for it - clog the streets, the malls, the post office. Makes my life just harder to live. And that's not right. No amount of christmas spirit can overcome that. I'm turning into a scrooge, I can feel it. Hopefully it's temprorary.

Anyway, I'm just kind of mad because Libranet doesn't support my array controller either, so now I get to try the last straw for Debian, the straight-up distro. The everclear of linux. Computers! Yarr.

Comments

[ex-athelstan105.livejournal.com]

you epect debian to support a raid controller which no one else supports? sry to be negative, but I think not.
debian is careful about network security and patching. but they are usually the last to add stuff like that.

=-(
have you tried looking for a driver outside of linux distros? ive had luck with that a few times. especially since some driver writers take their time getting their shit into the kernel or any major distros.

[niralisse.livejournal.com]

This is not what I'd call a thinly-supported controller - drivers are compiled into the standard 2.4 kernel. The problem is the standard debian bootdisks use 2.2, so both xandros and libranet use 2.2 as well. I got CD5 of Woody, which boots to 2.4, so hopefully that'll get me there.

If there was some way I could get like a kernel module or something to give another distro so it would recognize the disk at the partitioning stage, that'd be great, but I don't really know anything about how to do that... got any suggestions (besides going back to RH8).

Re:

[ex-athelstan105.livejournal.com]

I would say run whatever distro you want, then compile your own 2.4 kernel and install. but it sounds like you are having trouble partitioning for the initial install? you could use another disk for the system and jsut put data on the raid array. =-/

hopefully your Woody disks will help you anyway I guess.
Or if you install rh8 and really hate it, jsut have fun remodeling it over the next year til it turns into Jon`s Distro. ;-D