On Thursday 05 April 2001 02:30, Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 wrote:

I managed to install SuSE7.0 on a Poweredge here with no problems.

The trick for me was to select the "manual" method (type manual at the boot: prompt)which uses YAST, not YAST2.

Once there, you can manually load modules. The one to load for the RAID controller is the AACRAID module.

Also, I've noticed that since 7.0 the LILO installation screen of YAST2 always defaults to using a floppy! Your problem below sounds like it never wrote to the MBR of the disk, hence you couldn't boot.

I attempted to install SuSE 7.1 on my son's Dell XPS R400. In many ways YaST2 and YaST are brain dead. Specifically, during the install YaST2 recognized the HITACHI G2000 DVD- CDROM and began the install. BUT, when it came time to choose the CDROM YaST2 COULD NOT SEE what it had been using. Amazing! I think this is probably because they were using sysiocntl and reading and writing directly to the SCSI(0,0,0) hardware. In attempting to get my Beast to burn CDs on its PleXWriter W8432Ti , I noticed that xcdroast does the same thing. None of the standard block or character devices would see the PleXWriter: scdX, srX, sgX, sdXX, but xcdroast used SCSI(0,0,0) By playing with the various scsi settings, trying as many variations of the ide-scsi howto's as I could find, I was able to get the PleXWriter to read the tracks without dying. Setting the speed to 4x, unfortunately, was the only way. BUT, when I checked out the iso image of the audio CD I had copied, I found out that although xcdroast had copied 12 titles and a 212MB 'data' track to the iso image on the HD, every track was merely the first track. The titles were correct, the music was not. I tried burning a CD using the iso image anyway, just to see if it would work. It died at about 100MB. To add disappointment onto disappointment I discovered that it setting the scsi emulation to the only values I could find that would seem to read the entire CD, I could no longer communicate with the Zip250. So, sadly, I had to return it to an IDE at hdd format so at least I can read data and audio CDs and use my Zip250. Like you, I ran into the problem that since YaST2 saw an existing lilo on the MBR it didn't ask if I wanted to overwrite it. It ASSUMED I didn't and forced me to install lilo on a floppy. Then, since the new install obviously didn't match the old install the lilo hung on LI-. In order to boot either the SuSE partition or Win95 I had to boot with the floppy. Their "precaution" was less than useless, it was counter productive. JLK

Rik

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-----Original Message----- From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:KZEMBOWER@jhuccp.org] Sent: 04 April 2001 20:56 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Anyone successful installing SuSE 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge 1550?

Has anyone successfully installed SuSE 7.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 1550? The manufacturer rates it as certified with Red Hat 7.0. I thought that this might be close enough. When I tried to install SuSE 7.1, at first it said that there were no hard disks found. Then, I used some screen to manually probe for modules, and suddenly, it found the hard disk, a RAID 5 array. I thought I was home free.

But, when I rebooted it, it couldn't run anything. Even before it got to LILO, it told me to "press F1 to reboot, press F? to do something else..."

I gave up and installed Red Hat 7.0. At one point in the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD directions, before I got to the Red Hat install, it had me create a kickstart diskette, then type "linux ks=floppy noprobe" at the linux boot prompt. After that, the RH install went automatically to a successful conclusion.

How come I could install RH 7.0 and not SuSE 7.1? Any ideas? I'd still like to convert this box to SuSE 7.1 before I get too far along setting it up. Can I upgrade from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.1?

Thanks for your thoughts.

-Kevin Zembower

----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

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