dellmgr on Debian Sarge ?

[Terry Gliedt]

Gunnar Krull wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 16:25, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> 
>>Léonard Wauters wrote:
>> > Dellmgr is statically linked, so it doesn't require any special package.
>> > That's why making a .deb is quite easy, and even more a good exercice I
>> > think...
>> > We have made a special .deb in my company for dellmgr, and we hav no
>> > problems on using it.
>>
>>Léo was correct, making the Debian package was trivial. The only dellmgr
>>I could find at support.dell.com is 5.22 (from over 4 years ago). Has
>>anyone seen a more recent version?
> 
> 
> I'm using dellmgr from the "perc-cerc-apps-6.03-A06" package. This includes a 
> rpm packet with version 5.31 (Oct 08, 2003). Don't now if this is the most 
> recent version.
> You can also use alien to convert the rpm to deb.

Thanks - I'll check it out.  Found it, thanks for the pointer

>>When I invoke dellmgr.bin I get a curses screen of garbled characters.
>>This is surely a messed up font (I ran it in an XTERM). Anyone know how
>>to make dellmgr show legible characters ?  TIA
> 
> 
> The characters are ok on my systems. Debian Sarge with TERM=xterm, LANG=POSIX.

There's the magic - set LANG=POSIX. Works in xterm and also works on the 
console.  Thanks for the tip.  In building the dellmgr package, I 
modified the dellmgr script just a little:



# Get the major number of the megadev ioctl node
MAJOR=`grep megadev /proc/devices|awk '{print $1}'`

if [ "x$MAJOR" = "x" ]; then
     echo "/dev/megadev does not exist. I don't think we can play."
     exit 1
else
     # major device number found
     rm -f /dev/megadev0
     mknod /dev/megadev0  c $MAJOR 0
fi

#   Set the environment so this is not garbled...
LANG=POSIX
export LANG

#   Execute the dellmgr binary
dellmgr.bin



>> >>> Terry Gliedt wrote:
>> >>>> Our several dozen Dell machines are running Debian Sarge and I'd
>> >>>> really like to get dellmgr and the like to run without booting to a
>> >>>> DOS floppy. We are running a standard 2.6.15 kernel. Has anyone made
>> >>>> this sort of software available - or had experience getting things
>> >>>> to work from a running Linux system (even Debian unstable??)   TIA



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