Precision 470 with CERC SATA RAID0: dual boot?

[Scott M. Dier]

glowing pear wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We recently purchased a Precision 470 with WinXP installed to a 2-disk 
> 160GB RAID0 array.  I'd like to put Ubuntu Linux on there and be able to 
> dual-boot it.  I've been doing a lot of research and this doesn't sound 
> particularly easy, unfortunately (dealing with preexisting software RAID 
> seems like a dark art in Linux).  Right now, I'm booted off the Dapper 
> Drake LiveCD and I loaded the aacraid module into the kernel. GPartEd 
> doesn't seem to be able to see what's going on with the disks, but fdisk 
> does (?)

Do you have any output on the terminal when gparted can't see the 
partition?  I would also try the 'alternate' install disk, which may 
work better in this case.

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Scott Dier <sdier at cs.umn.edu>
CS/IT Systems Staff