On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:32 +0100, Geert Batsleer wrote:

Hello,

I'm planning to install centos 4.2 x86_64 on a Poweredge 2800.

This system comes with a EFI utility partition and has software called Server Assistant wich helps you to install your OS so that things like RAID and such can get monitored in an 'indepent' way afterwards through this EFI partition.

When booting into the Server Assistant (the software is on a linux liveCD btw) I get the choice between a couple of supported OS's like MS server 2003, Novell or RHEL 3 or 4.

So thinking that centos 4 is rhel 4 "without the artwork" I choose for the RHEL4 option and inject CD 1 from centos 4.2 ... but unfortunately I get the error wich asks me to insert the correct CD.

Did anyone found a solution for this? I can always delete this EFI partition and install it the normal way but this feature looks nice to play with :-)

---- Officially, Dell does not support CentOS. The SA disc is hard coded to looking for specific versions of RHEL (3/4 ES/AS/WS) and will not recognize the CD.

You could have the server assistant cd write the kickstart file and use the kickstart file with the CentOS cd, probably with little to no modifications as that is essentially what the SA does.

btw...dell offers a linux-poweredge mail list...

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Craig