Installation on DELL 2850 or similar ?

[graile]

Greetz...

Trying to install FC2 (and/or FC3) on a DELL 2850 (and 1850).
One container with the hardware raid software was created and I'm trying to install FC2 on it.
Fedora is NOT picking up the raid device - just complains that it doesn't see any disks to install on.

Running a PERC4e/Di with megaraid2 software/drivers.

Any ideas ? hints ?

Tried Google - nothing helpfull.
Tried Dell support - nothing helpfull (only support RH-ES/RH-AS)

Thnx a lot.
-graile

[kwinke]

I just found myself in a similar position...

I've got a fresh PE2850 which I'd like to run FC2 on. I copied the Dell drivers from their site (http://ftp1.us.dell.com/scsi-drivers...0.7-A10.tar.gz) which are designed for this controller, but only blessed for the enterprise-versions.

I boot the RH install with expert noprobe dd and toss in my driver disk, but it hands on a bluescreen as soon as the floppy gets loaded. I haven't got any further than this.

I'm going to try in the next few days doing a FC2 install on an older PE, then create a new kickstart image with these new drivers added in. Hopefully that'll work.

Any other advice or stories about FC2 and the new, new Dell PE series would be appreciated...


...ken

[wades]

Originally Posted by kwinke

I just found myself in a similar position...

I've got a fresh PE2850 which I'd like to run FC2 on. I copied the Dell drivers from their site (http://ftp1.us.dell.com/scsi-drivers...0.7-A10.tar.gz) which are designed for this controller, but only blessed for the enterprise-versions.

I boot the RH install with expert noprobe dd and toss in my driver disk, but it hands on a bluescreen as soon as the floppy gets loaded. I haven't got any further than this.

I'm going to try in the next few days doing a FC2 install on an older PE, then create a new kickstart image with these new drivers added in. Hopefully that'll work.

Any other advice or stories about FC2 and the new, new Dell PE series would be appreciated...


...ken

Did you make any headway with this?

[sazaney]

is there any solution about this? i had a same problem with kwinke

[crackers]

I just put RHES on a Dell 4800 (I think that's what it is) with two SCSI containers, so you might want to consider trying CentOS instead of FC.