Hi, We've got a couple of Dell PowerEdge 1650's that we're installing 8.0 on, they have a hardware RAID controller, which uses the aacraid module. Attached to this are two drives in a RAID1 configuration. When the installation starts, I select Manual and load the RAID module (as per http://www.domsch.com/linux/suse.txt) and then commence the installation. YaST2 lists the array correctly, and shows that LILO will be installed to the MBR, I select the software we want to install, and off it goes. At the end of installing CD1, it attempts to install LILO, but it fails with the error "Could not write the LILO boot sector" nothing else is outputted to any of the tty's Now, I know that the way Dell set up their disks can be funny ("utility" partitions and all that), I think the idea is that you use their supplied setup CD to do OS installations, but the only Linux distro this supports is Red Hat (I tried it - it objected to the SuSE CD). Was wondering if anyone out there had installed on a PowerEdge 1650 like this, and knew if it's OK to nuke all of Dell's cruft on the disks, or even what to tell YaST to do with LILO to get around this? Cheers James -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************