From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 08:00:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C804316A417 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nodje.co@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895AB13C457 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nodje.co@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so114065wxd for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:00:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=JAa5WyYJwKQ4ewDSZH8j+80TZdhvD4xRB/wPIC21Qk8=; b=NXO27np8GwtD6CBJ17MMnbxMWAg1C1u7lee1GxiFHwp4Tu+wIOtARPI4xQ+Xo2WRpOvli0EhFlkwaoQX1itIEX+yujwMy1GpXcp07MA9Glf5NZjGC35QjuLw7KU35CnTorSMFHfOBXwPgJWORrFSxdwBXemaBDmH6f62XwGxD0I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=TncKc9FVKDtMSDfHAb4RjpP3XJVoquSTaIMplmeRqYpIXNBvIMKkDD7d7T1ElvWwc6D0wZZxbXfz9y/TbATVgi8Fb+WHvam77cisJfEKlT1VUr/GkE2DEYvDVAvblYKCl2Va9mZqaPlFNXIvv7Xk1QlzaMFUsISqnybRs2fmNxc= Received: by 10.70.11.5 with SMTP id 5mr765155wxk.1192001754260; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.94.12 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:35:54 +0800 From: nodje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:00:33 -0000 I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5. Is it possible at all to install freeBSD on one of those RAID?? I've found out that this is also a problem with the few linux distros I've tried. I've heard it was possible now but I'm a little bit surprised by the slow adoption I must say. I've been using those Intel RAID with Windows for a couple of years now and it really helped solve my backup problem. I think this is simply great, no worries of data loss anymore (at least coming from hardware failure). -nodje