On 04.11.2013 12:44, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Anyway, BackupPC is my preferred backup-solution, so I went ahead to > install > another favourite, CentOS 6.4 - and failed. > > The raid controller is a Highpoint RocketRAID 2740 and its driver is > suggested > to be prior to starting Anaconda by way of "ctrl-alt-f2", at which > point > Anaconda freezes. Hi Sorin, Please check this page, if you have the driver from the manufactured it shows you how to load it: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/sect-Driver_updates-Use_a_boot_option_to_specify_a_driver_update_disk-ppc.html > > I've come so far as installing Fedora 19 and having it see all the > hard-drives, but it refuses to create any partition bigger than > approx. 16 TB > with ext4. Yes, RedHat puts in this artificial limit. They say they do not support volumes larger than this and recommend XFS instead, which is what I recommend as well. > > I've never had to deal with this big raid-arrays before and am a bit > stumped. > > Any hints as to where to start reading up, as well as hints on how to > proceed > (another motherboard, ditto raidcontroller?), would be greatly > appreciated. Just a thought - I maintain a CentOS destop oriented remix and have an ISO with the kernel from elrepo.org (kernel-ml): http://li.nux.ro/download/ISO/Stella6.4_x86_64.1_kernel-ml.iso It's not tested much but the kernel might be new enough to support the raid card, if you can install it you could keep using it; "changing it" it to CentOS is trivial. HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro