[WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400

[Richard Humphrey]

Unfortunately there are no drivers for the  PERC2/DC card on their
site that I can find. I am beginning to wonder if something else is
wrong. If I can create partitions  and format them etc, wouldnt the
linux installed driver be working?  I just get failures when
installing packages.. I see others that are having no trouble with
this card, so it makes me wonder if it could be something else.




On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:25:18 -0500, Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com
<Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com> wrote:
>  
> 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
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>  Richard Humphrey <rlhumphrey@gmail.com> 
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> 01/12/2005 09:37 AM 
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> Subject Re: [WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400 
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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.
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>  Thanks.
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>  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/
>  > 
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>  > 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.
>  > >
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>  > > Ed Cooley
>  > > Strategy Systems, Inc.
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>  > >
>  > > -----Original Message-----
>  > > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
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>  > > 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.
>  > >
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