Curse my naivety

[WoZZeR]

Hello chaps, my first foray into this hallowed hall.

I had a mishap with Ubuntu yesterday, I installed it fine but it wouldn't boot. The problem was it only installed to one of the discs of my RAID 1 array! It caused chaos of the highest order.

Now then, I had a look at the Suse site:

http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_install_SUSE_Linux_on_software_RAID

Basically, would I be right in saying that this implies that version 10.2 of Suse will happily install on my RAID 1 array?

I currently run XP home and am looking to have a dual boot system utilising the RAID 1 array.

 

[FirebarUK]

The best thing about OpenSuSE in general is that I've never had issues with installing on wierd and wonderful hard drive controllers, such as those found in cutting edge hardware (P965 etc). It seems as thought they keep the sata drivers in the kernel at cutting edge.

Examples;

P965; Fedora 6, Centos 5, Ubuntu 7.04 - none would install
Only distro that wouldn't bomb out tring to load the ata_piix driver was SuSE and it worked fine.

650i; Fedora 6, Centos 5, Ubuntu 7.04 - would all install but with random /dev/sd* errors and crazy filesystem problems.
OpenSuSE 10.2 - fine again

 

[WoZZeR]

Excellent news, thank you.

Have downloaded OpenSuse 10.2, all 3.66Gb of it, shall install tomorrow.

 

[FirebarUK]

No worries

Of course I can't guarantee it will work, but OpenSuSE is arguable the distro its most likely to work with. Good distro too may I add