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Building ATA RAID and SMP Support into Slackware 9

Posted by timothy on from the tomorrow's-computer-today dept.

TheMadPenguin writes "This HOWTO will describe the steps necessary to build support into Slackware Linux 9.0 for Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and a Promise Ultra ATA RAID redundant drive array. By default, there is no support for these configurations unless specified through a kernel recompilation after the initial install."

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  1. Uhm... by ciryon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you choose to run Slackware, wouldn't you know how to do this?

    There are so many people that wanna run Linux and heard that slack is the coolest and most "pro" way to do it. Sickens me. :-P

    Ciryon

  2. A (hopefully) good idea by 3141 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK, how about this for an idea. With Linux, support for most devices is already built in, and either "just works" or needs a recompile. How about, then, a set of diffs for different devices that you can apply to your /boot/config file to enable support? This way, people won't have to look up the HOWTOs and edit the file manually, but either get the diff direct from the Linux-savvy manufacturer or go to an unoffical webpage (like this one) and get it from there?

    So first you look up your device, then you apply the diff to your config file, then you recompile, then your device works.

    Am I missing out on anything? This would be very handy, and significantly reduce possibilities for manual-editing-screwups.

  3. I'm not impressed with Slack 9 by Nikkos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've used Linux for about 6 years, and although I'm no guru, I've gone through many installs of every major distro on quite a few different machines. This time, upgrading from Slack 8.1, I got bad vibes from the start. The installer flaked out on me during partition setup, having to get the kernel sources separately is annoying (particularly since I have to have them to install Nvidia drivers) and overall I got the feeling that the whole thing was just slapped together. This is disapointing since the creator of Slackware went to the same college I did. (Go Dragons)

    So I downloaded Mandrake 9.1, installed it, and I haven't had a problem.

    Since I'm ranting about ease of use anyway, and maybe using my Imac is starting to jade me, but I'm getting tired of running ./configure, chasing down libraries, fixing compiler errors, and such in order to setup programs. I like being able to download a program and just click the bastard to run. I do seriously hope that along with the 2.6 kernel and a more desktop-friendly outlook, more developers will make thier programs more friendly to install for the average joe.

    Nikkos

    And in other news: Today, April 12th, is cosmonauts day, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space in 1961.