Dell PowerEdge 6300(?) new install....

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 30 17:42:42 UTC 2008


Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 	I'm about to embark on the voyage of installing Ubuntu on a Dell 
> PowerEdge 6300 (I believe) server. It'll likely have this for hardware:
> 4 Xeon 400MHz CPUs
> 2.5 GB RAM
> 2 72GB drives
> 4 9GB drives
> 2 18GB drives
> 	The 18 and 9GB drive will end up in the 6 drives bays at the bottom. 
> The 2 72GB drives will go in the non-removable bays.
> 
> 	I'm just looking for any gotchas or experiences with 7.4 or 7.10 on 
> this beast...
> 

Okay, first hurdle is to get the thing to boot from the SCSI CD drive on 
the Adaptec 7860 controller. I went into the SCSI config utility, 
instructed it to boot from ID5, and nothing. Pointers?

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