Hi there,
I'm attempting to install Fedora Core 2 on to my development server (Intel Server Board SDS2 with Adaptec AIC-7899 - IO Bios 001.3W) but I cannot seem to get the installer to see the hard-drives on that device.

I've followed the instructions in that came with the manual to make a driver disk, but it says the drivers are for Redhat 6.2 and 7 - and the installer does say that there are no applicable devices on the disk created by the installation CD.

I am unsure if the card is an I20 card - I get a feeling it could be - and I found this site:

i2o shadowconnect com

However my card AIC-7899 does not seem to be mentioned. Following the link from that site to:
www redhat com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg03906 html

...reveals some installation instructions, but I fail at the "First verify that your card is one of the supported I2O cards listed on the i2o homepage?" hurdle because I'm not sure if it is.

I can only afford to persue this a little bit longer before I just have to write off having a linux development server at all in the near future, which is a shame.

If anyone can offer any advice then please reply. My Linux knowledge is pretty basic and I come from a Windows development background.

Many thanks,

Paul

I tried out those instructions anyway, and the AIC-7899 is indeed an I20 (i2o ?) card - and following the instructions from the link in the original post it does actually work.

It does require having a computer which you can do a network install from though - unless someone who is less of a n00b can figure out how to mount a floppy drive and copy it across instead of using the network - or activating the network interface while installing from cd so you can copy off just that one file.

Ah forgot - It works at the Disk Druid stage as long as you DO NOT click on the graphic representation of the partitions, only click on the items in the list.

Try booting with "linux text acpi=off".
ACPI is broken for some server boards.