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NAME="TIPS">10. Tips and Important Notes</H1
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>Dont bother using KDE / GNOME or any other X window system to finish RAID installation as explained above. Use simple text terminal.</P
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>You can press <B
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CLASS="KEYCAP"
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>Cntrl-ALT-Fj</B
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> to switch to <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>ttyj</TT
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> where <TT
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>j=1,2,..6</TT
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>If you do start KDE/GNOME or any other X window system, it will run on <TT
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>tty7</TT
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>, which you can access by pressing <B
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>Cntrl-ALT-F7</B
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>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.</P
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>During RH 7.2 installation, choose ext3 and swap file types only.</P
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>When you remove Promise SCSI emulation and setup Native Linux RAID, linux lets you access the hard disks either by mirror name: <TT
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>d0</TT
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> or individual disks themselves: <TT
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>hde2</TT
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>, <TT
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>hdg3</TT
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> etc. It is very important that: YOU NEVER access the hard disks directly by their name, instead access the corresponding mirror partition. Example: Use <TT
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>/dev/ataraid/d0p3</TT
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>/dev/hde3</TT
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>/dev/hdg3</TT
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