RE: [gentoo-server] Dell 1655mc

[Chris Smart]

Hmm.. can you open the Dell, or is it still under warranty?

If you can open it, then you could install a temporary cdrom drive.

If you can buy or borrow a 64mb or higher usb stick, you could use this
distro, flonix, that I just found on the net.

http://linuxdocs.tuxfamily.org/flonix/index.php

It is designed to run from a usb disk - you could boot to this (like
knoppix) and install gentoo from there..

Just a thought :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric G Ortego [mailto:eric@×××××××××.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2004 9:49 AM
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Dell 1655mc



Chris Smart wrote:

>Hi Eric,
>
>Perhaps this may help you on the forum
>
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57754&highlight=boot+usb+disk
>
>it's a "Build your own Gentoo install / boot / rescue USBStick"
>
>I think to get your usb cd to work on boot, you need to tell the right
>modules to load at the beginning.. which won't happen on most distribution
>cds.
>
>You could make your own gentoo boot usb stick, and install gentoo from
that.
>
>It's kind of diving in head first :) but the forums are very good.
>
>Anyway, perhaps reading the thread will spark some ideas.
>
>Chris
>
>
Thanks,  I do have an existing gentoo install, unfortunatly its on my 
laptop which is a ppc not a P3.
And I don't have a pen drive just this cursed cdrom.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric G Ortego [mailto:eric@×××××××××.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2004 9:39 AM
>To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
>Subject: [gentoo-server] Dell 1655mc
>
>Has anyone any information on installing gentoo on a Dell Poweredge 1655mc?
>
>My problem is that these servers don't have ide or scsi floppy or cdrom
>drives.
>
>It has just one usb 1.0 plug which I *can* boot the live cd from, but
>*all* the cd's(knoppix too) fail to find the cdrom device when It comes
>time.
>I've tryed PXE booting to start the install but I only have a redhat
>server to work from and for me thats like pulling my own teeth with a
>claw hammer.
>
>Someone mentioned having to pass arguments to the kernel at boot , I
>have tryed nohotplug , hdc=ide-scsi , hdc=/dev/scd0 , and several others
>without success.
>
>HELP I really really need to be  redhat ridden, I suck at rpm's and
>don't care to waste the rest of my week learning them enough to remove
>RH to install gentoo.
>
>--
>Eric
>
>
>