request for a custom sarge netinst cd, in exchange of money...
Hello,
Short story: My company would need a custom sarge netinst installer
for its new server, and is willing to pay $250 for such an ISO. If
you're interested, please read on...
My company bought a HP DL360 server with SATA raid . Sarge stock
installer won't recognize the raid controller (Which is supported by
piix , but only with versions included with later kernels. At least
2.6.11 works). I found some custom made installers with later kernels
which recognized the controller, however there were other mandatory
drivers which were missing...
Namely, the tg3 nic driver, which it seems has been removed from
debian kernels since 2.6.10 ? And an *unknown* ide or scsi driver...
there are no cdrom or floppy drive on the machine, so i use an hp's
ILO feature on the server which allows me to connect an ISO image from
another machine via a web interface.
Once the image is connected the server will boot on it. No
problem here, but with the custom installers I tried d-i failed when
it tried to mount the media to install the base packages. It seems a
driver was missing which was there in the stock installer, but i
couldn't find exactly which one. But having a kernel with the same
configuration as sarge's installer in this area should do the trick...
I spent two days trying to make my own installer with a newer kernel
and the necessary drivers but couldn't get a working installer and
would need too much time.
So I suggested to my boss that maybe someone here would be glad to
make this custom installer ISO for us in exchange of a little money.
My boss proposed $250, so here i am... We'd need the ISO within a few
days if possible.
If you're interested, please contact me. Don't respond on the list...
(I hope not to pollute this list, I thought that this was on topic, and
that a little money in exchange of some custom work could be appreciated)
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