Re: Installing amd64 on Adaptec 2015S (SmartRAID V) with dpt_i2o
Neil Gunton wrote: > Thanks Kevin, I had not seriously considered this option yet, in part > because this is a tightly packed 1U case, with no space for an IDE drive > inside. So I guess I could try an external USB drive enclosure - would that > work? Is USB generally well supported for installing and booting up off of > these days? I'm not certain that USB is supported for booting/installing. What I typically do for rackmounts, is not to bother mounting the temporary drive in the enclosure. With the case out of the cabinet, I rest the temporary IDE drive on top of the drive cage with the lid off of the case. Most of the time, I'm done with the installation and copying within an hour or two. You can also use this for cloning an installation. Install your desired base system on an IDE drive, then rest that drive on or inside the case of the new system. Boot off the IDE into single user mode then copy the system onto the mounted internal drives of the new system. Kevin > Actually, I think I may have a 2.5" external drive enclosure sitting around > in one of my drawers, with a 20GB hard drive from my old laptop. If I > remember correctly, it has two USB connectors, because it gets all its > power from USB and so needs two ports. Should that work for installing? Might work. Would depend the Debian installer would install upon a USB drive and if your BIOS could boot off of a USB drive. If either of those doesn't work, you can probably remove the IDE drive from the USB enclosure fairly quickly and connect it via IDE (serial or parallel, depending upon the drive) to your motherboard. -- Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing amd64 on Adaptec 2015S (SmartRAID V) with dpt_i2o
Neil Gunton wrote: > Thanks again for all your help, it's been most illuminating! Seems like > every time I think I have linux down pat, then I try to do something on a > new machine and have to spend a week just getting the hardware working... > Linux, it's always good for your humility! Neil, You've probably already thought of this, but after years of building installing Linux on unsupported disk controllers, I've given up on attempting to build custom driver or installer disks to support the new hardware. These days, as soon as I find out the controller is unsupported, I just pop on old, small IDE drive off the shelf into the system and install the OS on that. Then, of course, it's a simple matter of building a custom kernel, booting to single user mode, and copying the OS from the temporary IDE drive to the SCSI drive. One nice thing about Debian is that after the initial installation, you can easily upgrade to new versions without every going through a reinstallation. Last I looked, RedHat, Fedora, and SuSE require reinstallations to upgrade to new versions. Kevin -- Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
