Re: [gentoo-server] Dell 1655mc

[Eric G Ortego]

Oooh Jackpot!
Thankyou verymuch

Anthony Dodson wrote:

>This guy had some luck and details his efforts...
>
>http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/gentoo.dell.blade.txt
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric G Ortego [mailto:eric@×××××××××.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:39 PM
>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
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