Installing MD on local disk

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The default action for setting up a MD is to have it network boot and be diskless. However, there seems to be options (checkbox's) to not have the MD diskless.

I have a couple of requirements where this might be the best option for the MDs. It is mainly on older machines that don't have bios support for network boot and rather than use floppy based network boots (which means they now need a floppy drive) I thought they might as well use a hard disk (of which I have a few small drives sitting around).

Has anyone sucessfully got a MD running that is not diskless?
Was there anything special to make it work?