Re: request for a custom sarge netinst cd, in exchange of money...
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:31:11PM +0200, Samuel Tribehou wrote:
> 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...
tg3 was removed in 2.6.11 or so and readded in 2.6.12 when the firmware
license issues were resolved.
> 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)
Well I have no idea what CPUs are in that machine. If it runs 64bit
feel free to try my amd64 sarge installer at
http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ which uses 2.6.12 kernel.
Any driver NOT in 2.6.8 has to be manually loaded since the discover
data hasn't been updated (so you go to console 2 and do modprobe
drivername, and then go back to console 1 and redetect disks).
I haven't made an i386 version although someday I might get around to
that.
Len Sorensen
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