(Partial) solution: Woody on Proliant ML35 G3 (smartarray 641)

2004-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Halbwachs 
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,
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Emmanuel Halbwachs  Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures
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Re: (Partial) solution: Woody on Proliant ML35 G3 (smartarray 641)

2004-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Halbwachs 
Hello again,
While rereading my post, I realize that I did not explain the
partial in the subject.
To have a fully-fonctionnal HP Proliant woody, we need the hpasm
kernel module that manage the server health.
Some other french colleagues told me that without this module fans
will be stuck at full speed all the time. I will send another post
to the list to ask more about this topic (new thread).
Cheers,
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Emmanuel Halbwachs  Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures
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fax  : (+33)1 69 63 60 06   Route de Nozay F 91460 Marcoussis
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