Need Help with install on Dell Poweredge 2400, I'm desperate

eventhorizon

I've tried everything , when I boot with 2004.0 livecd and I type : gentoo doscsi ( only scsi on that thing ) the process hangs when searching for an avansys... The server config : Dual PIII 600 , 512RAM , and 2HD ( 17G ) put in sripe and PERC 2 /Si is active, on the second scsi 2 cdrom-drives ( both scsi-plextors ) I tried with noapic, noraid, nohotplug param. No good

Can somebody help me with that problem .

PS: I read on the postings that you can boot from a knoppix cd ( for better hardware detection ) and then install gentoo. but can somebody link me to or explain to me in Noob language how you can do that?

Greetz and thanks in advance
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jkt · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 6:53 am Post subject:

1) download & burn knoppix
2) boot from knoppix cd ;-)

3) setup networking if you're not using dhcp
4) setup partitions on hard drives
5) mkfs
6) download stagex-date.tar.bz2
7) unpack stage
8 ) chroot
9) follow the install guide

eventhorizon · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 7:47 am Post subject: next step

I downloaded knoppix and booted from , then I made the FS , But where I extract the file?? And how do I continue ? ( I hate it to be a Noob :oops:

) Chroot to where and how do I continue the setup?? Does knoppix support Reiserfs an ext3??

Thanks in advance
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Sugarat · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 348

If you look at the Gentoo installation handbook it should help you understand how, and where to extract the stagex file to. Once you extract the stagex file then just follow the rest of the instructions and you should end up with a nice Gentoo system

nixnut · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject:

Look at this piece of documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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eventhorizon · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

I looked at your link and followed the part of knoppix, but they do not talk about downloading the stagex file and to change root and so .. :cry:

I think I'm missing something Can somebody help me further??

Greetz
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eventhorizon · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 9:34 am Post subject: Problem solved !!

I downloaded the version 2004.1 and started with gentoo doscsi, recognises the PERC 2/Si Raid --> DEV/sda

Just one little thing : no NIC autodetected , solved with insmod ..... eepro100 and everything works smoothly withhout using Knoppix.

Earlier I tried with 2004.0 with smp dossci , no succes ( I have 2 procs )
Is there a difference between 2004.0 and 2004.1? Or smp doesn't recogn. the RAID module??

Thanks for all the suggestions , and see ya
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jkt · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

please see the release announcement of gentoo 2004.1 ;-)