Hello list, i've put several hours, if not days into this attempt to install woody and i am at my wits end now. If you can , please help. As i cant follow the list, please cc: this address in any reply.
I have bought an IBM x205 server and additionally ordered a ServeRaid 4lx raid controller as recommended by the hardware distributor (returning the items is not an option; they offered to install linux (redhat) and i refused; turns out redhat and suse support all devices that cause me trouble now). I have a problem now with getting the raid controller to work, as well as the Gigabit ethernet card that is onBoard (e1000). It seems as if there used to be an extended driver set on a boot floppy provided by "blade" at on http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ however when i go there, it tells me that the drivers are possibly (and most likely) have been corruped during the hacking of the debian server, and that the maintainer of that inofficial package has no interest in keeping it up to date. I can only open the archive after typing in a password saying "Yes i want to screw my system with hacked code!" or such. Naturally i prefer not to use them. Next i got myself the original kernel sources and headers for the bf24 kernel and built the module for the controller (ips.o) on another debian system. Put it on a floppy (into the /boot directory of course) and then tried to "Add additional drivers from floppy" when booting from the woody disk 1 (of course with kernel bf24). When i tell the dialog to insert that module, it will hang forever. If, instead , i open a terminal, manually mount the floppy, copy the module into the right place (/lib/modules/2.4something/kernel/drivers/scsi) and then do an insmod, it tells me the module is not built for that kernel. If finally i do a insmod -f ( that is what the dialog is doing, too) it tells me that the kernel is being tained, and it hangs forever. At other occasions, i saw that while the dialog is hanging, lsmod reports the module as being loaded (and initializing). I hope i am missing the "right" way to install woody on that system. Can anyone point me to some document that could help me with the installation? By the way googling pointed me to a dubious "boot-floppies" package all the time. On my other system i have repeatedly tried to apt-get or apt-cache search for that package without success. Would that solve my problems? Where could i get it? TIA, Daniel Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
