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[Happen_Zhu@DELL.com]

Hi, Steven, 

     Hope you can benefit from below installation guide if your raid card is also PERC4x/SI.

Regards

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Install Redhat Linux 9.0 on PE1850/2850/2800/1800 
1> Download perc 4e/si raid driver
ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/ 

Make a boot floppy dish with rawritewin using the first installation disk of your RH9 

Install RH9 following the normal procedule.


2: Download NIC driver
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=1641
installation manual 
ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2897/ENG/README.txt
copy to floppy
mount /mnt/floppy
cp e1000-5.4.11.tar.gz /root
cd /root
tar zxvf e1000-5.4.11.tar.gz
cd e1000-5.4.11/src
make install
insmod e1000
netconfig
/etc/init.d/network restart
cd /usr/src/
tar zxvf 1850_scsi_raid_linux-2.4.27.tar.gz
ln -s linux-2.4.27/ linux
cd linux
make modules modules_install
mv /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.confbak
make install
vi /etc/grub.conf

The raid card and NIC driver in 1850_scsi_raid_linux-2.4.27.tar.gz is in module mode, so you have to edit below configuration file: 


[root at localhost root]# more /etc/modules.conf
alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid2
alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 e1000

update the NIC driver in kernel
cd e1000-5.4.11/src
make install
check dmesg



Default NIC kernel driver before update is: 
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.52-k3
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex



After update: 
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.4.11
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex

Install dellmgr
http://ftp1.us.dell.com/scsi-raid/megaraid-util-rh8.0-i386.tar.gz
tar zxvf megaraid-util-rh8.0-i386.tar.gz 
rpm -ivh dellmgr-5.23-1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh megamon-3.6-0.i386.rpm
/etc/rc.d/init.d/raidmon start
/usr/sbin/dellmgr

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·¢ËÍʱ¼ä: 2005Äê7ÔÂ19ÈÕ 15:59
ÊÕ¼þÈË: micheal; linux-poweredge-Lists
Ö÷Ìâ: RE: red hat 9 on pe2800

 

What sort of help?

 

I just did a 2800 but that was ES3/4

 

Regards

 

Thing

 

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From: micheal [mailto:micheal at jsedi.cn] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 1:18 p.m.
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: red hat 9 on pe2800

 

hello

  I found some drivers for red hat 9 on dell web site,but I want some step for installation rh9 on pe2800,Can you help me? thank a lots

 

 

                                    michael

                                 micheal at jsedi.cn

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