Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386. Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that).
> >
>
> use the etch installer. sarge doesn't generally support SATA while
> etch does. Etch will be released "any time now" and is already getting
> security support and is very usable.
>
> A
Agreed. I just did an Etch install on a server with SATA drives. I
used the daily build of the Etch installer from the 5th of this month
and it went flawlessly. The Etch installer is one of the best
installers out there as far as I'm concerned.
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