Red Hat Linux Install Failure with Promise FastTrak TX Onboard SATA150 RAID Chipset

[Dean Mumby]

Matthew Walburn wrote:

> Sorry for the delay!
>
>> Check the archives  Matthew Walburn reported having built a driver 
>> disk for fc1 , I tried and ended up having to install redhat 9 and 
>> then upgrade to fc1 using yum , this worked fine but was messy. I 
>> have requested Matthew Walburn post his disk or instructions which 
>> would make future instalations and support possible by simply 
>> compiling the boot-modules for whatever kernel is used by the 
>> instalation.
>
>
> I have made my boot disk which I successfully was able to install 
> Fedora with, available on my website at:
>
> http://www.railwave.com/fedora_fasttrack.img
>
> To write the image out to a disk:
>
> dd if=fedora_fasttrack.img of=/dev/fd0u1440
>
> I wish I had better documented how I created it. I will try to reverse 
> engineer my own process and post it here and on the web as well.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Matthew
>
> -- 
> Matthew Walburn, RHCE
> Network Assistant - x. 3-4995
> MIT Department of Mathematics
>
>
That would be great , as i stated i struggled with compliling the ft3xx 
module for the kernel-boot

Regards
Dean