Poweredge 1950 with Debian

[Jonathan Dill]

Bert van Ooijen wrote: 
> What is the correct procedure to install Debian linux on a Poweredge 
> 1950 with a Perc 5/i controller and 2 SAS disk in a mirror?
I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but these servers can run 64-bit 
they are EM64T.  I ended up going with Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.1 LTS amd64 
version roughly following these directions--although they are for Ubuntu 
and Dell 2950, the module and boot loader info should approximately 
transfer for Debian.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1575949&postcount=20

Network does not detect during the install, but works fine after reboot, 
don't know if that is an issue with any of the Debian installers.

The kernel from Dapper causes the physical drives to show up as well as 
the RAID, so for example the physical disks in my RAID1 show up as 
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb and the mirror shows up as /dev/sdc.  So, I had to 
change the filter config for LVM to stop the PV UUID from showing up on 
more than one device.

I hear the install works almost perfectly with Ubuntu Edgy, but that is 
not an LTS release and will only receive security updates for 18 months 
vs. 5 years for LTS.  The Xen kernel from 3.0.2 via xenify.sh also does 
not have the issue with disks showing up as well as RAID.

Jonathan