I'm setting up a backup server with RAID10. The PCI Controller Card is new to the computer so the drivers need to be installed for the OS install to recognize it.
I went through this process previously with Windows Home Server 2008 and ended up slipstreaming the drivers into the install disk; it worked.
Now I'm installing Ubuntu Server 10.04 and wondering how to do the same. When I start up the PC and boot to the Ubuntu Server Installer (from USB), the only drive it finds is the USB (15.6GB).
The hardware RAID10 setup has already been configured, I just need to slipstream the drivers into the Ubuntu Server install.
If I'm wrong here please point me in the right direction; any help with solving this is appreciated.
First check whether there are acutally drivers for your card in linux at all. It should have discovered your disks regardless of the RAID.
In Linux it is usually not a big problem to install on a temporary disk, you can move the insallation relativly easy when using LVM. You could use a cheap stick first, and fiddle with the RAID later on.
Out-of-tree driver will be a huge pain in the a.. when you get kernel updates. And raid 10 is only 4 disks, so you may not need the PCI - really? not PCIE? - Card at all if the mobo has 4 SATA ports.