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HELP! Linux on a PowerEdge 1400sc
I can't seem to get any linux distro installed on this old PE1400sc. I'm no whiz with computers but I play with a lot of old PCs (get a batch of them whenever my friend's company upgrades) using various flavors of Linux and never had this much of a problem before. The PE1400sc is one of the older ones with a 933mhz Coppermine, 512mhz RAM, 10GB Fujitsu SCSI drive, and a Lite-On DVD writer. Nothing is in the PCI slots. I Flashed the BIOS from A05 to A09. Didn't look like anything else from the drivers and downloads part of the site applied to this model with what it has in it. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG OR NOT DOING RIGHT? I've tried many distros: Ubuntu, Mepis, Mint, Slackware, Fedora, Zenwalk, and Gentoo. Either it hangs while loading SCSI or I get I/O errors from the disc drive while it's installing. Ubuntu 6.10 installed but runs with problems. Ubuntu 7.04 install CD hung while loading SCSI and upgradeing from 6.10 left it unbootable. Gentoo installed fine from GRP but I couldn't emerge anything because of compiler errors (yes I had the arch and use flags set properly).
Message Edited by untruestory on 07-12-2007 05:40 PM
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Linux is not MSDOS or WINDOWS. It doest just water chicken install.
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Every PowerEdge 1400 server is built to the customer's order and shipped directly from the factory. To take advantage of the growing market for Linux-based servers, Dell can install the Red Hat® Linux 6.2 operating system on the PowerEdge 1400 server at the factory.
The 1400SC has a ServerworksServerset LE 3.0 Chipset.
Get IDE drives and use a Promise PCI UDMA IDE or SATA controller.
The 1400SC employs a ServerWorks ServerSet 3 LE chipset offering a 133MHz FSB and support for PC133 SDRAM memory. The NIC is an Intel integrated Pro100+ chipset.
The 1400 Has a dual-channel Adaptec AIC-7899G Ultra160 chipset.
7899 AKA OEM Adaptec SCSI.
Some Models come with PERC 2/DC PCI RAID controller card.
Definitely runs Solaris
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/250.html
Bus/Device/Function ID (Subsys ID) Device name
Class code: Class/Subclass
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0/0x0/0 1166,9 ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge
Class 0x60000: Bridge/Host bridge
0/0x0/1 1166,9 ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge
Class 0x60000: Bridge/Host bridge
0/0x2/0 8086,1229 (1028,9b) Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
Class 0x20000: Network controller/Ethernet controller
0/0x4/0 10b7,9050 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
Class 0x20000: Network controller/Ethernet controller
0/0xe/0 1002,4752 (1028,ce) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
Class 0x30000: Display controller/VGA compatible controller
0/0xf/0 1166,200 (1166,200) ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge
Class 0x60100: Bridge/ISA bridge
0/0xf/1 1166,211 ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller
Class 0x1018a: Mass storage controller/IDE interface
0/0xf/2 1166,220 (1166,220) ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller
Class 0xc0310: Serial bus controller/USB Controller