> The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2.
> It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver), once installed, The network installer for sarge detects the t3 gig-ethernet adaptor automagically. --We're moving to Sarge now. On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: > Nathan Eric Norman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Eric Sproul wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:15, Francis Tyers wrote: > >> > >>>The onboard 'scsi' controller appears as a block device and not as a > >>>scsi device under linux. > >>> > >>>01:03.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array > >>>5i/532 (rev 01) > >>> > >>>i think it is... > >>> > >>>there is a driver in linux 2.4.x... > >> > >>The driver is called cciss, and supports the built in SmartArray > >>controller as well as the higher-end optional RAID controllers like the > >>641/642. > >> > >>Look in /proc/driver/cciss/ccissX (where X is the controller number, > >>usually '0' for the built-in) for some basic info. > >> > >>Devices attached to these controllers appear as /dev/cciss/cXdXpX > >> > >>c=controller # > >>d=logical drive # > >>p=partition # > >> > >>Thus the first partition on the first logical drive on the built-in > >>controller is /dev/cciss/c0d0p1. > > > > > > Is anyone aware of a debian-installer image which supports cciss built > > in? The existing d-i supports cciss just fine, but as a module. > > > > The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver), once installed, I usually either copy > a recent kernel source and compile whatever I need, or install an > eepro100 (or other supported) card to finish. > > The trick is to install with the bf24 kernel: version 2.4.18. > > Check the help at the Woody CD install boot prompt. > > > José > > > PS. > please reply to the list > > >
