debian on poweredge 2950

[Anderson, Steven]

I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 with a PERC 5 configured as a 300GB RAID 
5, 
dual broadcom gigabit network adapters 
4GB RAM 
DVD/CD-rom 
no floppy 


I am not able to load the debian-31-r4 release due to it can not see 
the network cards 

After successfully loading the OS I had problems activating X windows.

The following are the steps I used to fix the problem

Thank you for the support I received from this group


Setup Server

1.1.1.                              Install from the Debian CD
(Downloaded the Debian installer from 
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/mini.iso
<http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/mini.iso>  (32
bit version of network loader))

1.1.2.                              If you are using the 1st NIC select
the 2nd NIC (there is a bug in the install that uses the opposite NIC

1.1.3.                              Add the ssh daemon by typing
"apt-get update && apt-get install ssh" 

1.1.4.                              Reload keyboard, mouse, and video
drivers by typing the following (enables xwindows)

1.1.4.1.                        aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-kbd

1.1.4.2.                        aptitude install
xserver-xorg-input-mouse

1.1.4.3.                        aptitude install
xserver-xorg-input-evdev

1.1.4.4.                        aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-all

1.1.4.5.                        dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

 

Steven Anderson

City of Dallas

Streets Department

Flood Control

2255 Irving Blvd.

Dallas, TX, 75207-6201

(214)671-0424

fax - (214)670-6526

e-mail steven.anderson at dallascityhall.com

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