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Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860



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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100
Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> 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). If i do
> lsmod on the pre-installed system, which is installed by my hoster,
> it only shows three modules, the main-module is mptsas which needs
> two other modules. Is there a fix for the installer or a planned
> solution in the next release? Thanks Regards
>  
> Ben Humpert

ia64 is Itanium, which is different than amd64 in Debian. Does Dell do
Itanium? Using Etch is good advice. 
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Greg Madden
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