On Friday 01 March 2002 19.38, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been spending the last two days struggling with installing Debian on > > a Dell PowerEdge 4400 server. The problem is that the raid card (Perc > > 3/Di) does need to be enabled in the kernel to be detected correctly. I > > have compiled a kernel that detects it, but now I'm confused about how to > > get Debian installed, using this custom kernel... > > > > One way as I figure, would be to create a bootable ISO of the Debian cd > > and include my kernel. The question is, how would I go about that? Should > > I use mkisofs? If so how do I get the ISO correct? > > You could quite easily use the installation diskette (just replace the > standard kernel with a (perc-) patched one), at least if you got the > drivers you need to install the system built in. (Of course you can do > that with the drivers built as modules too, but that I've newer done and > don't know how.) > Then when your system is installed, just compile a new kernel with the > drivers as modules if you want. > > Admitely it's not the best neatest way, but it > 's reasonably simple (and > I know ot works since I've done it). > > (I will probably try to build a "speciallized" installation cd rather > soon, but for the moment I can not help you with that.) > > Best regards, > Emil
Hi, thanks for the suggestion... I've tried that already, what happened was that it presented me with the gui, and trying to set the keyboardlayout, it told me /tmp/'something' wasn't writable. (The machine is at work, hence the uncomplete error). What worked better was booting of a win98 bootdisk and then run /install/boot.bat from a copy of the cd I burned with the kernel replaced. It works well until the kernel & modules are to be installed... Some things are missing/not readable, even though everything seem to be in place browsing it in windows. That's why I'd like to try to create a "true" Debian ISO with the patched kernel instead. If you get your cd working, please let me know how you did? Thanks, Pontus
