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Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860




Greg Madden wrote:
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100
Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:

Hi,
since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the
sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started
with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386.
Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that). If i do
lsmod on the pre-installed system, which is installed by my hoster,
it only shows three modules, the main-module is mptsas which needs
two other modules. Is there a fix for the installer or a planned
solution in the next release? Thanks Regards
Ben Humpert

ia64 is Itanium, which is different than amd64 in Debian. Does Dell do
Itanium? Using Etch is good advice.

I have a PowerEdge 850 with a Pentium D processor. It has Intel's EM64T 64-bit support, which can be used with adm64 but *not* ia64. Mine has been running Etch without any problems using a 32-bit smp kernel.

    - Dave

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Dave Parker
Utica College Department of
Integrated Information Technology Services
Data Processing Office
(315) 792-3229
Registered Linux User #408177



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