Re: qla2300 enabled debian install images
Hi Craig!
I have used the DFS CD, it is good for those low level installs, though
I haven't tried it on any of the SAN only blades yet, but the bootable
USB keys perform pretty much the same role, just I'm lazy and like
installing with the debian installer.
I did a bit more web research and found this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384040
so with a bit of fiddling it looks like a qlogic only machine can be
installed, though still it's nice when it Just Works.
bye!
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:24 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:31:12PM +1000, Duncan Robertson wrote:
> > On a related subject does anyone know of any recent (Sarge or Etch)
> > debian installer images that have the qlogic drivers in them, not being
> > able to easily install Debian onto our SAN attached Dell Blade servers
> > is annoying, especially when RHEL4/Centos works so well.
> >
> > We have bootable USB keys that we can debootstrap from, but it would be
> > nice to have a debian installer image. I tried building one once but
> > gave up after a few days of steep learning curve with the D-I code.
>
> have you tried the Debian From Scratch CD[1]? i've found it very useful
> - it has drivers for all sorts of obscure hardware, so it might have
> qlogic drivers (if not, there's dfsbuild which can build a custom DFS
> CD).
>
> it's not quite the Debian Installer, but is, IMO, better in some ways
> - especially if you like to get your hands dirty during an install and
> make a few custom changes.
>
>
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/
>
> craig
>
> --
> craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> (part time cyborg)
>
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