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Re: Install on PowerEdge 6300



Hi,

I've changed it's kernel to 2.0.36 and successed to install.
Thank you very much.

Ossama Othman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Shinako Matsuyama writes:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I tried to install Debian Linux 2.0 on DELL PowerDdge 6300.
>  > But I can’t install it because the system has crashed during installation
>  > ( strictly speaking, after appears the message ‘ Ide: ports are not enabled
>  > (BIOS)’ any input aren't accepted ).
>  >
>  > Please give me an advice !!
>
> I've gotten so many e-mails about this that I finally placed
> instructions on how to get Debian working on Dell PowerEdge 6300
> servers at the following web site:
>
>         http://www.debian.org/~ossama/DELL6300
>
> I also noticed that you appended a "mem=1000M" to your boot line.  The
> stock Linux kernel cannot use more than 960MB of memory.  If you are
> using a stock 2.0.x kernel you must not specify more than 960MB of
> memory to use.  If you do, your system will probably crash during boot
> time.  If you are using a 2.2.x kernel then you won't need to set the
> amount of memory you have since the 2.2.x kernels appear to handle
> large amounts of memory more gracefully.  In order to get Linux to
> support more than 960MB of memory, the sources must be patched to do
> so.  Unfortunately, I don't what the patch is.  It has been done,
> however.
>
> HTH,
> -Ossama
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
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# Shinako Matsuyama




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