[Herts] More on Newbie Boot Hassle

[Stephen Birch]

I missed the start of this discussion. What type of machine are you bringing 
up? I just brought up a Dell 650 under debian, but I had to build a special 
kernel based on the 2.4.20 kernel because the aacraid driver did not have 
Dell support yet. I had to patch the kernel using the patch Dell has 
submitted to Alan Cox for inclusion in 2.4.21.

I got it to work and am now fully installed, but it sure wasn't the easiest 
install I have ever done.

BTW I love SuSE but got fed up of always having to reinstall the latest rev. 
It doesn't make sence that you can't simply upgrade over trhe net. I kept 
having to fly to the USA to upgrade machines I maintain over there. With 
debian, I do a network upgrade to each release from the UK. Get to see more 
of my wife :-)

The install is a little harder with Debian, but you only have to do it once!

Steve


On Monday 03 February 2003 17:37, Geoff Pitt wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Thanks for your comments so far.  I've done some more research and come up
> with some answers.
>
> The RAID set-up is controlled by a Promise PDC20276 chip (on my Gigabyte
> GA-7VAXP MOBO) and their FastTrak133 software.
>
> I've found an entry on the SuSE support FAQ's giving details of a patch
> from promise for 8.0 - I've downloaded it and tried to install it to no
> avail.
>
> Have been in contact with Promise support who helpfully say they're working
> on a patch for 8.1 (and Redhat 8 ) but can't give a release date yet.
>
> Making a boot floppy in YaST2 results in the same errors as writing LILO to
> the boot sector.  I guess I could try ditching win98 and installing SuSE on
> it's own but am worried I'll be without some important hardware (canon
> printer, WLAN etc) for some time until I can find the right drivers etc.
>
> Hope to meet some of you on Wednesday.
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff
>
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