Hello everybody,
First, the solution, thanks to Matt Taggart:
http://people.debian.org/~taggart/boot-floppies/
The story:
In February, I ask on this list how to install woody on a HP/Compaq Proliant ML350G3 with:
- 2 CPU (Xeon 3.06 GHz) and 2 GB RAM - hardware RAID (smartarray 641) - giga NIC (Broadcom 5702/NC7760)
The archive of the post is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2004/02/msg00105.html
The woody install disk has to have a >= 2.4.21 kernel with cciss driver built-in.
People on this list adviced me to build a custom woody install CD with the boot-floppies package. I found valuable information at http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers. (I can see that this page has got more infos since February) I tried to build myself a custom boot CD but fails on the size limit of 2.88 MB of the boot-floppies.
Matt Taggart, on the link above, has released a woody boot CD with:
- 2.4.25 minimal kernel - cciss driver as built-in - tg3 driver as module
The woody install was smooth on my box. Thanks Matt! Of course, the job is now to build a custom kernel to replace the minimal kernel, or to use a backported kernel-image as he recommends.
Cheers,
-- Emmanuel Halbwachs Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures tel : (+33)1 69 63 61 34 CNRS UPR 20 fax : (+33)1 69 63 60 06 Route de Nozay F 91460 Marcoussis
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