Re: Scratch install of Red Hat Linux 7.3 on a Dell Poweredge 1850

[Jeff Kirsher <tarbal@gmail.com>]

On 11/23/05, Hiatt Gary-E3486C <E3486C@motorola.com> wrote:
> I agree with you but we are going to load Ubiquity software on this server
> and they approve only the Red Hat Linux 7.3 load. I will write them and see
> if we might use a newer load.
>
> Thank You
> Gary Hiatt
>
> Subject: Re: Scratch install of Red Hat Linux 7.3 on a Dell Poweredge 1850
>
> On Mer, 2005-11-23 at 09:12 -0600, Hiatt Gary-E3486C wrote:
> > I need some help with finding out what I might be over looking trying to
> > load Red Hat Linux 7.3
>
> Thats the first thing to change. Red Hat 7.3 is very very old. Linux,
> installers and the rest have come on a long way since then. Its a bit
> like "I'm having trouble installing Windows 95 on my new machine".
>
> Red Hat Linux itself has turned into Fedora Core (end user), and Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux (packaged with support).
>
> Alan
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While I agree with Alan and Jeff's response about using a newer
kernel, I do have some suggestions.  I personally had similar
experience when installing on newer Dell servers and found the issue
to be the LSI drivers.  While installation found the hard drive and
completed installation, I found that I needed to load the latest LSI
drivers during the install to get the system to boot correctly.  I
checked the Dell site and they do provide drivers for Red Hat 7.3, so
I would try loading the appropriate drivers for your system.

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Cheers,
Jeff