Installing RH Linux on DL140 G2 with SAS HBA

[Robert Beaumont]

I need help with installing RH Enterprise 4 release 1 on a DL140 with the Internal SAS HBA.

Since this server does not have a floppy drive and RedHat does not recognize a usb diskette drive (or any usb device) at this point, is there anoter way to load the driver for this controller?

Any suggestion is appreciated.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) Make a cd with the drivers on it.
2) Build a bootable usb key with the drivers on it.

You need Linux disk 1 iso available.

mkdir /linuxiso1
mount -o loop /linuxiso1
umount
cat //linuxiso1/images/diskboot.img > /dev/sdc1
mkdir /linuxboot
mount -o loop /linuxiso/isolinux/boot.iso /linuxboot

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
mkdir /tmp/bootimage
cp -p -r /mnt/usb/* /tmp/bootimage
umount /mnt/usb
mkdosfs /dev/sdc1
syslinux /dev/sdc1
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
cp -p --reply=no /tmp/bootimage/* /mnt/usb
cp -p --reply=no /linuxboot/* /mnt/usb
umount /mnt/usb

Adjust the names to meet your needs.

SEP