On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:24:49PM +0200, Markus Oswald wrote: > Am Sa, den 17.04.2004 schrieb Nathan Eric Norman um 18:22: > > > > > 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. > > > > This is true, but d-i doesn't support booting off the SmartArray > > because the cciss driver is a module. I already installed onto a > > DL360, but couldn't install a bootblock. > > Hu? I installed Woody (bf24) on a couple of DL380G3 without a hitch - > the cciss works just fine and you can of course boot from it. > The only "special" thing I do is to load the module for the installed > NIC (Broadcom bcm57xx - tg3.o) so I can download a new kernel as soon as > the base-system is installed...
Good point if I were using the woody boot-floppies. However I was using the d-i iso. I also tried the d-i floppy images. In no case can you of course boot from it. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
