[Gllug] Dell Poweredge 4200

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 09 Jun, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 12:18 +0100, Huw Lynes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 12:02, Adrian McMenamin wrote: 
> > > Well it will boot the Knoppix CD, but not from the HD - it simply stops
> > > after it has been through the SCSI initialisation. But now you come to
> > > mention it, it does post up some message about the disks being wiped by
> > > some IBM porgram - I wonder if I should do a low level format and try
> > > again?
> > 
> > So you are doing an install from the knoppix cd to /dev/sda1 ?
> 
> 
> Yes using the supplied script - knoppix-installer iirc
> 
> > 
> > When you reboot you don't get any LILO/GRUB messages?
> 
> 
> None at all. Doesn't interact with the installation in any way as far as
> I can see.
> 
   Dell boxes do give problems, but why do you want to install Knoppix
instead of using the new Debian installer to install the now-released
v3.1r0a "Sarge"? There is a new installation manual complete with hints on
dealing with problem hardware.


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Chris Bell

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