Mounting Raid Array

[paradox6996]

I'm new to raids and waned to install Gentoo through Knoppix in konsole. I Googled this and searched the forums and found nothing, but can knoppix read and mount an raid array table, and if so; how would I do this so I can start installing gentoo on it?

[krishna.murphy]

I'm new to raids and waned to install Gentoo through Knoppix in konsole. I Googled this and searched the forums and found nothing, but can knoppix read and mount an raid array table, and if so; how would I do this so I can start installing gentoo on it?

The main thrust of Live CDs like Knoppix is to allow you to try stuff out, like your RAID array mounting. I don't know all the drivers included in Knoppix, but you may be able to mount a RAID array and copy stuff to it. However, since Gentoo is compiled on the target machine, AFAIK, it pretty much has to have all the sources needed, including the RAID driver.

Perhaps what want is to use Knoppix to download the Gentoo source? You wouldn't necessarily have to have the RAID driver to download that and burn it. Sorry if I'm being dense, but it's just not clear to me what you want to do.

Cheers!
Krishna

[klaus2008]

If you do not know how to use Linux software RAID then you could look at https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid
There is a special page called RAID setup https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup

You can find some installation instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap3 if you like to use Knoppix instead of the Gentoo LiveCD.

[klaus2008]

There was one important thing missing in my previous post. On the webpage http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-...ickinstall.xml you can read

Please bear in mind that the /boot and / mount points should use an older metadata format which can be specified by the --metadata=0.90 flag:

[paradox6996]

I need the raid45 module patched into the kernel is actually what I need, I just don't know how to do that with knoppix? I found this out later on after hours of reading is why it wasn't in the original post.