10. Tips and Important Notes

• Dont bother using KDE / GNOME or any other X window system to finish RAID installation as explained above. Use simple text terminal.

• You can press Cntrl-ALT-Fj to switch to ttyj where j=1,2,..6

• If you do start KDE/GNOME or any other X window system, it will run on tty7, which you can access by pressing Cntrl-ALT-F7

• If you decide to use Promise supplied SCSI emulation driver for FastTrack RAID, note that you are stuck at the default kernel version 2.4.7-10. Because, no source code for FastTrack is available.

• During RH 7.2 installation, choose ext3 and swap file types only.

• When you remove Promise SCSI emulation and setup Native Linux RAID, linux lets you access the hard disks either by mirror name: d0 or individual disks themselves: hde2, hdg3 etc. It is very important that: YOU NEVER access the hard disks directly by their name, instead access the corresponding mirror partition. Example: Use /dev/ataraid/d0p3 instead of /dev/hde3 or /dev/hdg3