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Keyser Soze
03-05-2001, 03:59 AM
Got a confusing dilemna. Have a dual processor IBM server series 320 1Y0 and I am trying to install Linux on it. It has the DAC960 controller and a F/W Raid rack with 5 set up. Problem is, the CD rom does not self boot, and I am not sure how to go about installing linux to the system. Maybe a linux boot disk with a driver for the scsi raid array, but I am unsure of the correct procedure. Searches on crawlers and IBM as well as Mylex yield no results. Any ideas? :rolleyes:
Lorithar
03-05-2001, 10:13 AM
*urks*
(Sounds like my next project ... spare lpar on an r35 -- there leaving 35 mips in there for us to play with)
Check out www.slackware.com (http://www.slackware.com) .. there are a variety of bootdisks and bootstrap disks. If you have a network pipe there two floppies should be sufficient to bootstrap it to a networkable box, and then you can use an ftp install.
I don't recall the DAC960 being available anywhere, but you COULD build the kernel on another machine, and create the bootdisk you need to get this off the ground. -- I don't know the midrange boxen as well as the big iron, which processor class is this thing in?