How to install SUSE 7.3 on a DELL PowerEdge 1750
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:25 pm
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How to install SUSE 7.3 on a DELL PowerEdge 1750
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Download images of Suse 8.2 disks:
- bootdisk
- modules #1
- modules #2
- rescue floppy
Create all disks by using "dd if=IMAGEFILENAME of=/dev/fd0"
- boot using the 8.2 floppy (and modules#1 afterwards)
- choose "manual installation"
- choose "kernel modules"
- choose "SCSI modules"
- choose "more modules"
- insert modules#2 disk
- select "LSI Megaraid2" driver
- don't enter any parameters.
- Choose "settings" (for installation)
- choose "debug mode"
- choose where to find installation
- enter "/suse/inst-sys"
- Make sure that Suse 7.3 Disk#1 is inserted
- Choose "Start Installation"
An error will appear, leaving a red messagebox on the screen.
Ignore this and go to a different TTY by using "Alt+F2"
- The CDROM should be mounted by now (because you've tried to run the installation already)
- type ". /var/adm/mount/suse/inst-sys/sbin/inst_setup yast2"
- Yast2 setup will start
- Now continue as normally with a 7.3 setup
- After the system reboots, it will display a kernel panic, because
it can't mount the root filesystem (of course), because it tries to
run the default kernel for 7.3 (which is 2.4.10-4GB)
- Compile own kernel with megaraid support and put it on some "reachable" medium
"reachable": CDROM, floppy, USB...
- Reboot using the 8.2 bootdisk. Repeat steps as done above to have support for the
megaraid controller
- Start rescue system from floppy
- mount partially installed system (default would be /boot=/dev/sda5, /=/dev/sda6)
- Install new kernel
- Reboot installed system (NOT from 8.2 floppies)
- Finish Suse 7.3 installation us usual.
How to install SUSE 7.3 on a DELL PowerEdge 1750
====================================================
Download images of Suse 8.2 disks:
- bootdisk
- modules #1
- modules #2
- rescue floppy
Create all disks by using "dd if=IMAGEFILENAME of=/dev/fd0"
- boot using the 8.2 floppy (and modules#1 afterwards)
- choose "manual installation"
- choose "kernel modules"
- choose "SCSI modules"
- choose "more modules"
- insert modules#2 disk
- select "LSI Megaraid2" driver
- don't enter any parameters.
- Choose "settings" (for installation)
- choose "debug mode"
- choose where to find installation
- enter "/suse/inst-sys"
- Make sure that Suse 7.3 Disk#1 is inserted
- Choose "Start Installation"
An error will appear, leaving a red messagebox on the screen.
Ignore this and go to a different TTY by using "Alt+F2"
- The CDROM should be mounted by now (because you've tried to run the installation already)
- type ". /var/adm/mount/suse/inst-sys/sbin/inst_setup yast2"
- Yast2 setup will start
- Now continue as normally with a 7.3 setup
- After the system reboots, it will display a kernel panic, because
it can't mount the root filesystem (of course), because it tries to
run the default kernel for 7.3 (which is 2.4.10-4GB)
- Compile own kernel with megaraid support and put it on some "reachable" medium
"reachable": CDROM, floppy, USB...
- Reboot using the 8.2 bootdisk. Repeat steps as done above to have support for the
megaraid controller
- Start rescue system from floppy
- mount partially installed system (default would be /boot=/dev/sda5, /=/dev/sda6)
- Install new kernel
- Reboot installed system (NOT from 8.2 floppies)
- Finish Suse 7.3 installation us usual.