On Sunday 10 December 2006 06:08, Thomas Miller wrote:
mdadm, is it already installed on Suse. If not why not? It is sponsored by Novell and Suse :-)
Assuming it isn't, is there way to add it to the package manager so I can use Yast to download and install it?
Thanks for be patient with this windows guy trying to convert a Linux guy.
Go into Yast, Software management, search button key in mdadm select, install and bob's your uncle. According to pin, its on the disk pin 0.35 - package info for mdadm ------------------------------------------------------------------ *** rpm info ------------------------------------------------------------------ Name : mdadm Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.2 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 30 Build Date: Wed May 3 04:33:06 2006 Install Date: Sun Jul 16 20:29:26 2006 Build Host: gray.suse.de Group : System/Base Source RPM: mdadm-2.2-30.src.rpm Size : 450166 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed May 3 04:50:15 2006, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org URL : http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ Summary : Utility for Configuring MD Setup Description : Mdadm is a program that can be used to control Linux md devices. It is intended to provide all the functionality of the mdtools and raidtools programs but with a very different interface. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen