Re: New-Bee: have lowlevel formated SCSI Drivve noew system not recognized.

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

peter@chubb.wattle.id.au (Peter Chubb) writes:

> dann> depending on the controller, the HP Enablement Kit for Linux
> dann> might get you going - it has a debian installer (b-f) on it.
>
> It's only for Itanium-2 --- RIBsNET has an I2000, which is Itanium-1.

As sometimes happens, there's a distinction between what works and what is
documented and/or officially supported...  The current Enablement Kit CD
works just fine with i2000s.

To be sure, I just downloaded T1502AA from hp.com (it's a free download),
and burned a CD-R from the resulting ia64-lirk-20030806.iso file.  Using a
completely stock i2000 with BIOS version 130, this CD worked fine to complete 
a minimal Debian install.  The machine is now happily upgrading itself over
the network to 'testing' as I type this...

If you download the CD image, there's a PDF file on the CD representing the 
CD booklet that ships with physical CD's from HP.  Read it *first* if you're 
using a serial console, or want to understand what the various other options 
on the initial menu are good for...

Bdale