Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Whoops, I seem to have gotten some threads badly mixed up. This particular image was not my doing, though I still believe the version numbers reported look sane. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't keep realy old images around as they are mostly unusable > or still have the unupgradable libc6/base-files combination. My image is from the very end of February, and I'm pretty sure it (barely) postdates that whole mess; I don't rec

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-20 Thread John Madden
> If you can update to sarge, as you did, then you had new enough > packages. The very old packages (before Feb) refuse to update due to > overwrite problems. I didn't "update" anything, that's just what was installed via the netinst process. Should we assume then that that image works properly?

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"John Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It might be ok to keep this particular image (if someone can test it >> still works) till etch images are being build witht the 2.6.11 (or >> later) kernel. But we had many old problems, esspecialy the >> libc6/base-files change, come up again and again

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-20 Thread John Madden
> It might be ok to keep this particular image (if someone can test it > still works) till etch images are being build witht the 2.6.11 (or > later) kernel. But we had many old problems, esspecialy the > libc6/base-files change, come up again and again due to outdated > images being still distribut

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Madden wrote: > I knew keeping a copy of this around would come in handy, have fun! > > http://mirrors.kecra.com/debian-installer-amd64-20050214.iso > > A note that I have still from my install on a 2850, when booting, use > noexec=off so that the gr

RE: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-17 Thread Joel Johnson
riginal Message- From: John Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 6/17/2005 1:57 PM To: Joel Johnson Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org; Joel Johnson Subject: Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd Ok, the whole thing *does* work after some hacking around with it and loading the megaraid2 module man

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-17 Thread John Madden
Ok, the whole thing *does* work after some hacking around with it and loading the megaraid2 module manually. The problem I had with the mirror was that my network port had been disabled by our network folks. :) After the first boot, I noticed that the installer had still installed the 2.6.8 ker

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-17 Thread John Madden
>> I'm not sure if this is helpful (since I don't have a megaraid2-based system >> to test with), but the DFS (Debian From Scratch) ISO contains an AMD64 >> 2.6.11 kernel that appears to have megaraid drivers available as modules. >> >> http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ FYI, the 2.6.11-

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread John Madden
> I'm not sure if this is helpful (since I don't have a megaraid2-based system > to test with), but the DFS (Debian From Scratch) ISO contains an AMD64 > 2.6.11 kernel that appears to have megaraid drivers available as modules. > > http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ Thanks, that may ind

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread John Madden
> When I installed it, I used the alioth repos, I'm surprised that it > doesn't find the new ones. What are you putting in for the manual config > of the apt source? http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian (from http://amd64.debian.net/README.mirrors.html) John -- John Madden UNIX Sy

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread Joel Johnson
John Madden wrote: I knew keeping a copy of this around would come in handy, have fun! http://mirrors.kecra.com/debian-installer-amd64-20050214.iso It works, somewhat -- the system boots and through some trickery I can even get it to detect the disks. But being a netinst iso, it requires us

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread tony mancill
John Madden wrote: > Might it be worthwhile to maintain a newer boot image, similar to what woody > did > with the 'bf24' option, even if it is at this point a separate iso? I'm not sure if this is helpful (since I don't have a megaraid2-based system to test with), but the DFS (Debian From Scrat

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread John Madden
> I knew keeping a copy of this around would come in handy, have fun! > > http://mirrors.kecra.com/debian-installer-amd64-20050214.iso It works, somewhat -- the system boots and through some trickery I can even get it to detect the disks. But being a netinst iso, it requires use of a mirror and

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread John Madden
> I knew keeping a copy of this around would come in handy, have fun! > > http://mirrors.kecra.com/debian-installer-amd64-20050214.iso Excellent, I was hoping to hear from you in particular, Joel. Thanks for keeping that copy around. I'll give it a go in a few minutes and post back how it goes.

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-16 Thread Joel Johnson
John Madden wrote: I've seen this in the archives already, so my apologies if this is starting to sound like a broken record to some, but... The current install cd doesn't allow installations on the PE1850 due to its raid controller only being supported by the megaraid2 driver, only available fo