Any thoughts on this very legitimate question? This is exactly the reason Linux will NEVER get to where Windows is. Somebody asks a question and it gets ignored because:

a) Nobody has a clue

b) The guy made the mistake of saying that he's a newbie, so it gets ignored. Frankly, I'm surprised that no one said something like RTFM you F____ newbie.

c) Nobody cares enough to answer this.

Guess what, I have the EXACT same problem. Additionally, how in the hell do you mirror a swap partition? Oh that's right. You DON'T!!

If linux experts don't get their heads out of their ass and start sharing the knowledge, Linux is doomed to fail or at the very least be controlled by big companies like Novell and the likes.

Why did you ask for help here? It says specifically after the article not to ask for help here but instead use the forums - there is even a link.

Calm down and ask for help in the forums.

And don't start a tirade why linux is bad and why people using linux don't share their knowledge - this is neither the right place nor the right time.

Keep on your windowsbox then.

I was a newbie on linux too and got frustrated too, now i see that most questions are already on the net, its just you have to learn how to use the net. and by the way, raid systems are well overdocumented in many wiki pages. and thats what is wrong on windows machines, almost nobody takes time to learn what they are dealing with, A GOD a blue screen, what are those stupid numbers!!

on the other hand, this is a nice one too "i boot my system and god KERNEL panic" what did i do wrong :) whell thats a question that we could ANSWER NOT.

i think you could better be on your windows box if you like the point and click system, and never take the time to learn ALL the shells there (not only cmd and dos)

And if you want to find out more do more with your machine and like to figure things out yourself atleast take some time for it you could try linux, If you look good on the net its almost impossible that your question is not already asked. do a quick search on the subject in google news you will see what i mean

And linux will be a competeter off windows systems it will take a couple off years but they will stay.

and no i'm not a windows freak, neither am i a mac os2 linux or whatever for system freak, just used to work with all :)

grtz,

Ethereal

Hi,

As I wrote in the howto here is how I let this work with MY hardware and Ubuntu5.10 /Debian 3.10. I tested both.

Why It doesn't work for you? Indeed I have no clue. The onlything I read is 'it doesn't work for me'. Maybe it's hardware related, maybe something else...

No, I'm also a 'newbee', I play with Linux since a 18 months or so.

Yes I care, but if you are not registred or don't take the time to mail me private, I am not starting a search to a clue in this comment section. This comment section is not build as a forum.

Ever called to Microsoft helpdesk? 250€ a call without being sure they give you a result... You get a tracking number and that's it.

If you had read three lines above you'd have seen this:

A forum is much better suited to answer questions like these because it has much more formatting options, a search function, etc.

In addition to that, noone ignores newbies here! Far from it, this is one of the most newbie-friendly places on the net. Have a look at the forum, and you'll understand why.

Because he did not post in the forum. You can use comments to make annotations, share your thoughts, but obviously they are not very well suited to ask for help. I've pointed out the reasons for this before.

You can't blame us for not sharing our knowledge, can you? We've written tons of tutorials, are spending several hours each day in the forum to help newbies and everyone else without benefitting from it financially. I don't think you would do something like that if you were in our place so please stop posting nonsense here, and if you have questions please go to the forum.

And please keep in mind: if you're friendly to us, we'll be friendly to you, so don't start flame-wars or the like.

wel, as i see NOBODY here does it right.

You CAN install a debian sarge with RAID 1 from the debian installer.

You DONT have to switch to other console for that.

lots of people forget to select the MDADM in de installer which makes you

able to create the raid volumes.

I'm going to make a howto how this is done.

And yes its difficualt in the beginnen, i took us about 10 installations to get the

order of creating partition etc to get RAID 1 on root from installer.