Here I go again, one more time. This time I'm only asking a simple question.
How does one go about installing drivers from a floppy to install Debian from the CD? Booting from the CD gets us to: megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000) megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx0:bus1:slot10:func1 scsi2: found MegaRAID controller at 0xd0004008, IRQ:11 [hangs] trying to boot from floppies gets us to the installer, but if we try to initialize the HD or load drivers, or configure modules, we can't because it says we need to to initialize the HD first. I think we got the wrong floppies :-( >From Matt Domsch's Linux Page: > >Drivers > >The most recent megaraid driver available for 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels is >megaraid-1.14g-ac, as found in Alan Cox's kernel 2.4.2-ac24. > I'm rather new at kernel hacking... Can we load this to a floppy? or append it to the CD to get it to recognize the HD's attached to the RAID card? Any, ANY, help would be appreciated. --Raf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rafael A. Hinojosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================== Original Message: Hello everyone, I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list, or to another more specific list. If so, do let me know. The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400 with the PercRAID 2/DC dual channel RAID card. Current plans are to use this machine to replace an old server. This question has probably been addressed before but I'll go ahead and ask. We would like to know what needs to get done for Debian to see and install on this machine... I've had a previous experience with a similar config on a seperate Dell server with RedHat (in fact very similar). The solution there was to use RH7 or a 2.4 kernel. Where would I get a Debian install disk that ran 2.4? We've already scoured the web for information pertaining to the install phase. In fact, we were able to download driver disks to successfully see the RAID card during boot. Before that, the machine just hung while probing the card. Once we were able to get to the installer screen, the other problem we ran into came during partitioning. The installer didn't even see a disk. I'm not quite sure what we are missing. My guess is that we would have to partition the logical RAID volume to be recognized by the installer. I haven't had the time to search through /dev or dmesg to see if a device comes up. I'm guessing that I could try doing it that way, finding the device and then trying to initiallize the drive from a console shell after the installer has come up... Yes? My other approach is to find a spare disk, insert it into the machine and attempt to install on a non-RAID volume. This brings me to the question, can Debian be installed on a RAID volume? If anyone has had any previous experience getting this card to work under Debian, some advice would be appreciated. Sorry for the long-winded e-mail; Thanks, --Raf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rafael A. Hinojosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
