On Windows, the proprietary fakeraid driver comes on a floppy disk that the Windows installer asks for. As I understand it dmraid is what will (hopefully) take the place of this Windows driver. If I downloaded the dmraid package onto a disk, might there be any way to interrupt the Ubuntu installer, load this package, then continue with the normal installation? <div>On 12/6/05, Sean Hammond <<a href="mailto:sean.hammond@gmail.com">sean.hammond@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> "Doesn't work" is the only error description I have at the moment. I asked him exactly what happens but haven't found out yet. Thanks for clarifying the RAID driver situation. I understand what's going on now, he needs to use dmraid, and assuming all goes well can probably follow the instructions from <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto</a>, except for this unknown error with the LiveCD. If I can get more info about the error maybe we can make some more progress.. <div> <div>On 12/6/05, Phillip Susi <<a href="mailto:psusi@cfl.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> psusi@cfl.rr.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> What exactly do you mean it doesn't work? "Doesn't work" is not a very good error description to go on ;) As for raid drivers, that's kind of a misnomer in the case of fakeraid. The controller is really just a regular IDE controller with some special BIOS and a proprietary windows driver that performs the raid functions. Under linux it should be supported by a driver built on libata, only raid does not enter the picture. More likely than not, this will work right out of the box with ubuntu. The driver treats the controller as the normal IDE controller that it is, and so it provides access to the individual drives, not the raid volume. For the raid access you need the kernel mapper device, which dmraid configures. Sean Hammond wrote: > Disaster! It turns out the LiveCD doesn't work on the PC in mention, so > we are back to square one. > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>