(Partial) solution: Woody on Proliant ML35 G3 (smartarray 641)
Hello everybody,
First, the solution, thanks to Matt Taggart:
http://people.debian.org/~taggart/boot-floppies/
The story:
In February, I ask on this list how to install woody on a
HP/Compaq Proliant ML350G3 with:
- 2 CPU (Xeon 3.06 GHz) and 2 GB RAM
- hardware RAID (smartarray 641)
- giga NIC (Broadcom 5702/NC7760)
The archive of the post is:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2004/02/msg00105.html
The woody install disk has to have a >= 2.4.21 kernel with
cciss driver built-in.
People on this list adviced me to build a custom woody install
CD with the boot-floppies package. I found valuable information
at http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers.
(I can see that this page has got more infos since February)
I tried to build myself a custom boot CD but fails on the size
limit of 2.88 MB of the boot-floppies.
Matt Taggart, on the link above, has released a woody boot CD
with:
- 2.4.25 minimal kernel
- cciss driver as built-in
- tg3 driver as module
The woody install was smooth on my box. Thanks Matt!
Of course, the job is now to build a custom kernel
to replace the minimal kernel, or to use a backported
kernel-image as he recommends.
Cheers,
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Emmanuel Halbwachs Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures
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