Date:        Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:07:26 +0100 (CET)
    From:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
    Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112271907010.22141-100000@chylonia.3miasto.net>

  | standard install disks lacks raid in kernel and raidctl in ramdisk

It is worse than that - standard GENERIC kernels don't have raidframe
configured, so you have to have the system installed (somewhere) at
least to the stage of being able to compile a kernel, before there's
any chance of using raid.

kre