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Old 02-02-2004, 05:05 AM   #1
ezaton
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Old Compaq ML370 and RH9/Fedora


Hi People. I'm trying to install Fedora on an old server I happened to get. It's an ML370 (G1), P3 766, with SCSI RAID Array (don't know the exact model yet). The floppy is out-of-order, and since I hate CD installs, I tried booting into "linux askmethod" and install over NFS. The NFS server is all set up, and it's hardly the first time I'm doing it, but since I didn't reach this stage, it doesn't matter anyhow.
Fedora install hung as soon as it finished "loading /sbin/install" (right before running anaconda...)
I suspect it has something to do with the RAID drivers (they hang the machine), since when booting into expert mode, it goes one stage further, asking me for driver disk. I assume it's the RAID, because it's supposed to be loaded before the network drivers, and after the IDE drivers (which were already loaded at the time).
Same thing happened using RH9, and since I started assuming it has something to do with the kernel (and modules), I tried running Knoppix (I have 3.2). It hung during the "Configuring Hardware" stage.
Google didn't help me too much (as most info regarding new distros was about ML370 G3 & G2), but I've set up my mind to install Linux on the machine. Win2k, although quite slow at a certain stage, managed to format the FS, and start the installation.
Any info, experiance, suggestion, or tip would be welcome!

TIA!
Ez.
 
Old 02-03-2004, 02:28 PM   #2
finegan
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Slackware,

Patrick compiles multiple kernels for each release. If you take a normal bare.i, it'll get you to a much fuller installer then RH, not as rich as Gentoo's, but a full busybox so you can cat /proc/pci and find out exactly what chipset you're dealing with as far as this raid monster goes. With that it'll at least be easier to figure out what is hanging the install, then you can probably disable that aspect with command line options for Fedora. At least figuring out why the driver is hanging and actually getting to watch the dmesg as the module loads will help. It bugs me that most of the rest of the distros hide that from you on the installer's load.

Cheers,

Finegan
 
  


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