When trying to bring up the interface I get the following error messages:

Reconfiguring network interfaces…SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCSIFBRADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up eth0.
done.
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Instructions for installing a very clean Debian GNU/Linux system that boots from RAID 1, and has RAID 1 or RAID 5 root and data filesystems.

The examples assume two identical harddrives, sda and sdb, on which after a small boot partition, 1 GB is used for swap, 25 GB is used for the root filesystem and everything else is for a big “data” partition that will hold non-system stuff.

Although I personally prefer /boot to be readonly, this guide doesn’t add the ro flag in /etc/fstab, because that’ll only lead to complaints about lilo upgrades not going smoothly. (Which is exactly the point of having it readonly in the first place…)

They also assume some specific tools that you may or may not like, and a kernel without module support. This is how I prefer to do things for servers. Please don’t try to persuade me to use kernel packages, grub, modules, or whatever.

General knowledge is required. Don’t begin unless you understand each step.

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