Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

From: David Witbrodt (dawitbro_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 09/25/04

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    I am about to install Linux for the first time in the next week or two,
    as soon as I finish backing up my old hard drive.

    I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have
    not found a chance to install it until now. I assumed I could just plug
    it in, but when I began reading about it I realized that my old PC
    (circa 2000) cannot handle IDE drives larger than 137 GB. Further
    reading helped me understand that buying a newer IDE controller would
    allow me to use the big drive.

    I plan a multiboot system with Windows XP (and maybe a couple of other
    OSes), and I have on-hand all of the drivers and docs I need to make
    that work. Unfortunately, I am still unclear about how to allow Debian
    to support the IDE controller.

    First, several retailers listed Debian as a distro for which there is
    Rocket 133SB support. But the Highpoint website itself provides no such
    support, except for source code for the drivers (which hopefully
    compiles and functions for Debian). Unfortunately, I am a newbie and
    have no idea (at this time) how to take advantage of those sources.
    Even if I did, I don't have an installed Linux with which to compile
    them.

    Second, when reading about "stable" Debian I seemed to find that the
    kernel doesn't quite support large LBA48 hard drives, an issue quite
    aside from support for the controller card. Unfortunately, I had
    already downloaded and burned 3.0r2 CDs of disk 1 and disk 5 (bf2.4),
    thinking those would be all I needed. Being a newbie, I thought
    sticking with "stable" would be a better idea until I become more
    familiar with how Linux works.

    After discovering the LBA48 road block, I searched around a little and
    found the HILUX website -- an update for "stable" with a kernel (2.4.26)
    which should support LBA48. It was just after I downloaded and burned
    that mini-CD that it occurred to me that the Rocket 133SB controller
    might not be supported. When I went looking for info about that, I
    arrived at my current state of confusion.

    I would rather install from CD, since I am a total newbie (with Linux)
    and doubt I could make my DSL connection work if it did not autodetect.
    But just in case, I downloaded a Sarge netinst CD a couple of weeks
    ago. (Since then, I have simply been finishing the backup job on the
    old drive before I start playing around inside the case -- I have other
    new hardware to install besides the Rocket controller.)

    If any Debian users out there have comments or advice before I begin my
    big experiment (I look forward to it, even if I do have lots of
    problems!), please speak up. I will be beginning in the next week or
    two -- as soon as I have a couple of days off from work after I finish
    backing up -- so there is still time for me to learn the right way
    before I learn the HARD way!

    TIA,
    Dave Witbrodt 

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