Gentoo installation on IBM Netfinity 5000 server

ZteevWork · n00b Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 20

Hi people,

Im trying to install Gentoo on a IBM Netfinity 5000 server.

I have big trouble probing hardware at install-time! I can`t probe the scsi interface nor the network interface.

Anyone has ever succeed in installing Gentoo on a Netfinity server?

Thanks for your help in advance,

Best regards,

Zteev

nixnut · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject:

At least someone succeeded:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=155979&highlight=netfinity
He used the 2.6 kernel. You can start that with the boot option smp of the livecd.

Here's more:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97374&highlight=netfinity
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ZteevWork · n00b Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 20

Thanks that helped! I was using the gentoo kernel image... i tried smp and at least I got the net working.

But I still doesn`t know what to do to enable scsi. It detected aic7xxxx but I don`t have access to the 4 disks. I only have /dev/hda ...

I found good documentation within the links you pasted, thats great. But still I'm in need for help about scsi...

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Zteev

nixnut · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject:

ZteevWork · n00b Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 20

I got it!

I booted up the default Gentoo kernel image, then :

modprobe ips

I got in by pure luck, I don't know what ips is and modinfo doesn't tell anything.

My four drives are now available.

I also had to manually probe the network interface which is pcnet32.

I am ready to install!

Thanks for you help again!

Steve