Hi,
I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on a Dell PowerEdge R905, and a problem that you run into is that the DVD Drive on the system is not recognized by the kernel. I have done some searching on the web and found http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_13121.shtm and obtained the driver disk that it mentions. Having followed the instructions I can see and select the driver disk image but the install thinks there are no appropriate drivers in the image.
Can someone please confirm or deny that I should be able to use a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Driver with CentOS 5 without issue ?
It isn't a big deal as I will try a Network based install or use a USB DVD drive but I just want to confirm if using a RHEL 5 Driver Disk should work :)
Thanks, and have a nice day
Clint Dilks wrote:
It isn't a big deal as I will try a Network based install or use a USB DVD drive but I just want to confirm if using a RHEL 5 Driver Disk should work :)
It should yes.
on 10-15-2008 7:33 PM Clint Dilks spake the following:
Hi,
I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on a Dell PowerEdge R905, and a problem that you run into is that the DVD Drive on the system is not recognized by the kernel. I have done some searching on the web and found http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_13121.shtm and obtained the driver disk that it mentions. Having followed the instructions I can see and select the driver disk image but the install thinks there are no appropriate drivers in the image.
Can someone please confirm or deny that I should be able to use a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Driver with CentOS 5 without issue ?
It isn't a big deal as I will try a Network based install or use a USB DVD drive but I just want to confirm if using a RHEL 5 Driver Disk should work :)
Thanks, and have a nice day
It should work in theory. But if the driver disk is for RedHat 5u1, it probably won't work with CentOS 5.2, as the install media will have a different kernel. The driver disk only patches the running installer kernel AFAIR.
Scott Silva wrote:
It should work in theory. But if the driver disk is for RedHat 5u1, it probably won't work with CentOS 5.2, as the install media will have a different kernel. The driver disk only patches the running installer kernel AFAIR.
I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if someone has a url to the driver disk in question, I can try and look at what the issue might be
on 10-16-2008 2:22 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
It should work in theory. But if the driver disk is for RedHat 5u1, it probably won't work with CentOS 5.2, as the install media will have a different kernel. The driver disk only patches the running installer kernel AFAIR.
I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if someone has a url to the driver disk in question, I can try and look at what the issue might be
I don't know, but a visit to the Dell support page for the PowerEdge R905 doesn't yield a driver disk that I can find, and I don't see anything on linux.dell.com either.
I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if someone has a url to the driver disk in question, I can try and look at what the issue might be
Hi
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_13121.shtm
Or go to http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/~clintd/R905/ just to get the files I obtained from Dell.
On closer reading of the instructions I see that the say to use a USB CD/ DVD drive anyway so I am confused as to what the point of the driver disk really is.
on 10-16-2008 5:15 PM Clint Dilks spake the following:
I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if someone has a url to the driver disk in question, I can try and look at what the issue might be
Hi
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_13121.shtm
Or go to http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/~clintd/R905/ just to get the files I obtained from Dell.
On closer reading of the instructions I see that the say to use a USB CD/ DVD drive anyway so I am confused as to what the point of the driver disk really is.
That part is probably a typo. It says to use a FDD or USB removable storage for the driver disk image. Either expand it to a floppy, which the server probably doesn't have, or put it unexpanded onto a USB flash drive. Then boot from the built in optical drive and use the linux dd command.
Or you can use linux dd=http://130.217.247.31/~clintd/R905/rhel5-sata_svw-2.10.6-manykernels-dd.img (watch the wrap, above should be on one line) to pull it off your webserver if you give the setup a proper gateway address so it can reach outside.
That part is probably a typo. It says to use a FDD or USB removable storage for the driver disk image. Either expand it to a floppy, which the server probably doesn't have, or put it unexpanded onto a USB flash drive. Then boot from the built in optical drive and use the linux dd command.
Or you can use linux dd=http://130.217.247.31/~clintd/R905/rhel5-sata_svw-2.10.6-manykernels-dd.img (watch the wrap, above should be on one line) to pull it off your webserver if you give the setup a proper gateway address so it can reach outside.
Hi, tried this and it appears to work, but the DVD is still unusable. So its unfortunate but not a show stopper :). Thanks for the assistance.
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