Re: boot-net installation on blade 1000
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, a.m. wrote:
> Hi all.
> In previous days I wrote to have hints to solve a problem on my blade
> 1000. I had no hints so I try again (sure it's the last time) :)
> When one try to install by boot-net on a blade 1000, the installation
> doesn't recognize the qlogic card, this is because the firmware is not
> free and
> debian doesn't put it in the installation system. It's necessary to stop
> installation and, by wget, download firmware-qlogic.
> After downloaded the firmware I don't know how to use it: I think it's
> necessary to install it but how? What is the correct istruction to do
> this? On "release note" I read that it's necessary to use udpkg, but:
> udpkg -i firmware-qlogic
> apparently doesn't work.
I have a similar machine and I tested the installer recently, bumping
into the same problems. Have a look at my installation report, it
describes the necessary steps to get it going:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464445
Cheers.
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