Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

[Joel Johnson <joel48@ischool.washington.edu>]

John Madden wrote:
> I've seen this in the archives already, so my apologies if this is starting to
> sound like a broken record to some, but...
>
> The current install cd doesn't allow installations on the PE1850 due to its raid
> controller only being supported by the megaraid2 driver, only available for stock
> kernels 2.6.9 and later (AFAIK).  This is obviously a uh, big problem for anyone
> wishing to install debian-amd64.  I'm really hoping to not have to resort to
> installing Ubuntu on this series of machines, having already resorted to it for a
> machine installed before the official unofficial release.
>
> I saw at http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/04/msg00415.html that the
> installer previously shipped with 2.6.10, thus avoiding the problem, but that it
> was later rolled back to 2.6.8.  Unfortunately, those ISO's no longer exist, so
> having made no progress toward making my own cd, I'm looking for one of two
> things:
>
> - Does anyone have one of the most recent copies of the working 2.6.10-based ISO's
> that will allow a normal 3.1-amd64 installation, or:
> - Does anyone know of a place offering install ISO's supporting the newer
> hardware, much like we saw linked from Dell's pages to prop up woody?  If
> necessary, I can provide testing -- after all, I've already burned through half a
> dozen failed attempts at my own boot cd's!
>
> Thanks,
>   John
I knew keeping a copy of this around would come in handy, have fun!

http://mirrors.kecra.com/debian-installer-amd64-20050214.iso

A note that I have still from my install on a 2850, when booting, use 
noexec=off so that the grub install will work. It will be interesting to 
see if anything else has changed since the sarge release.


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Joel Johnson
Unix Administrator
Information School
University of Washington