[WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400
Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com
Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com
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Go to the Dell support site and download the zip file for the driver. Make
sure you choose RHES3 as your OS. When you unzip it, (at least that was
the case for my 2650) you will find a file with the .img extension. That
is a floppy image for the driver disk. That .img file may be on the cd,
but I'd just get the latest from Dell. When you get that image on a
floppy, start your install with the command "linux dd" You will get
prompted for the disk when it needs it.
To get the image on a floppy, you can use dd on a linux box: dd
if=<filename>.img of=/dev/fd0
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Scott Mace
Security Administrator
Travelcenters of America
440-808-4318
mace.scott@tatravelcenters.com
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Richard Humphrey <rlhumphrey@gmail.com>
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I am still having problems getting WBEL installed on this machine.
Here is osme more info. This server has a PERC2/DC raid card in it
(AMI, not LSI) I believe. I have updated the BIOS and the RAID
firmware to the latest from DELL. I have seen several articles talking
about getting the megaraid2 driver from the cdrom, but dont see how to
do this. Also I cant seem to find the driver elsewhere. A pointer
int he right direction would be most helpful as I need to put this
machine back into service (It formerlay had Windows 2000 server on it)
running WBEL.
Thanks.
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:59:16 -0600, Richard Humphrey
<rlhumphrey@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I will try out the Megaraid2 driver. I thought I was using valid
> media, but I am going to redownload and burn again and scan to make
> sure it's all good.
>
> Thanks for the tip/
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:17:04 -0600, Ed Cooley <ecooley@strategy5.com>
wrote:
> > Did you scan the CD for errors? You might also try using the
megaraid2
> > driver which can be selected in expert mode.
> >
> > ---
> > Ed Cooley
> > Strategy Systems, Inc.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org]
> > On Behalf Of Richard Humphrey
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:46 PM
> > To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> > Subject: [WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400
> >
> > I have a Dell Poweredge 4400 server that I am trying to install WBEL
> > (Respin 1 CD's) on. It auto loads the megaraid drivers and I can get
> > through the configuration choices part of anaconda just fine, it's
> > just that when it begins to install packages it will simply hang up on
> > the first CD. FWIW I am doing a minimal install and I also tried
> > minimal install with the addition of Apache/MySQL and I get the same
> > thing every time. It doesnt seem to hang on the same packages either,
> > it is a different package each time.
> >
> > As a test I d/l CentOS and burned the ISO's and tried the install and
> > basically the same thing happened only with CentOS the installer
> > terminated and I got the "You may now reboot your system message"
> >
> > Anyone had any similar problems? Any suggestions. I googles for RHEL +
> > Poweredge and didnt find anything related really.
> >
> > --
> > Richard Humphrey
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Go to the Dell support site and download
the zip file for the driver. Make sure you choose RHES3 as your OS.
When you unzip it, (at least that was the case for my 2650) you will
find a file with the .img extension. That is a floppy image for the
driver disk. That .img file may be on the cd, but I'd just get the
latest from Dell. When you get that image on a floppy, start your
install with the command "linux dd" You will get prompted for
the disk when it needs it.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To get the image on a floppy, you can
use dd on a linux box: dd if=<filename>.img of=/dev/fd0</font>
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Scott Mace<br>
Security Administrator<br>
Travelcenters of America<br>
440-808-4318<br>
mace.scott@tatravelcenters.com<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>I am still having problems getting WBEL installed
on this machine. <br>
Here is osme more info. This server has a PERC2/DC raid card in it<br>
(AMI, not LSI) I believe. I have updated the BIOS and the RAID<br>
firmware to the latest from DELL. I have seen several articles talking<br>
about getting the megaraid2 driver from the cdrom, but dont see how to<br>
do this. Also I cant seem to find the driver elsewhere. A pointer<br>
int he right direction would be most helpful as I need to put this<br>
machine back into service (It formerlay had Windows 2000 server on it)<br>
running WBEL.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:59:16 -0600, Richard Humphrey<br>
<rlhumphrey@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> I will try out the Megaraid2 driver. I thought I was using valid<br>
> media, but I am going to redownload and burn again and scan to make<br>
> sure it's all good.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks for the tip/<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:17:04 -0600, Ed Cooley <ecooley@strategy5.com>
wrote:<br>
> > Did you scan the CD for errors? You might also try using
the megaraid2<br>
> > driver which can be selected in expert mode.<br>
> ><br>
> > ---<br>
> > Ed Cooley<br>
> > Strategy Systems, Inc.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > -----Original Message-----<br>
> > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org]<br>
> > On Behalf Of Richard Humphrey<br>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:46 PM<br>
> > To: whitebox-users@beau.org<br>
> > Subject: [WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400<br>
> ><br>
> > I have a Dell Poweredge 4400 server that I am trying to install
WBEL<br>
> > (Respin 1 CD's) on. It auto loads the megaraid drivers and I
can get<br>
> > through the configuration choices part of anaconda just fine,
it's<br>
> > just that when it begins to install packages it will simply hang
up on<br>
> > the first CD. FWIW I am doing a minimal install and I also tried<br>
> > minimal install with the addition of Apache/MySQL and I get the
same<br>
> > thing every time. It doesnt seem to hang on the same packages
either,<br>
> > it is a different package each time.<br>
> ><br>
> > As a test I d/l CentOS and burned the ISO's and tried the install
and<br>
> > basically the same thing happened only with CentOS the installer<br>
> > terminated and I got the "You may now reboot your system
message"<br>
> ><br>
> > Anyone had any similar problems? Any suggestions. I googles for
RHEL +<br>
> > Poweredge and didnt find anything related really.<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Richard Humphrey<br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > Whitebox-users mailing list<br>
> > Whitebox-users@beau.org<br>
> > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users<br>
> ><br>
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> Richard Humphrey<br>
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