FC 5 installation on SCSI only server

[Abid Ghufran]

I have to face a similar problem. I am installing FC5 as a host OS on VMware
with Windows XP as the guest. I already have 2 virtual machines of FC4,
running on the same hardware and Vmware.

When installing FC5, it says that it cannot find media to install on.

What I am confused about is if the FC4 was able to detect the existing
harddrive, why cannot FC5?

Abid Ghufran.


On 7/9/06, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage at peaknet.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 22:50 +0200, Marc Bruggeman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I wanted to install FC5 on a Dell PowerEdge server that is equipped with
> > SCSI disks only,but i can't make it work.  The installation process
> > stops and reboots the PC after message has been given that no media has
> > been found to perform the installation.
> > I have been trying to find information or documentation on how perform
> > this installation but so far have not found any usefull information yet.
> > Can someone explain how I can get this installation started, or where I
> > can find the necesary information.
>
> Marc,
>
> You're not telling FC5's anaconda installer to use the correct driver
> for your PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) card. Depending on which Dell
> server you have, it uses a PERC/2, PERC/3, or PERC/4 (newest) card. FC5
> supports PERC/3 and PERC/4 cards with the megaraid driver. I believe
> there are compile-time options for this driver that support earlier
> PERC/2 and MegaRAID 428/466/... cards. With kernel-devel installed, see
> the /usr/src/kernels/2.6.xxxxx/drivers/scsi/megaraid directory.
>
> Once you select the megaraid driver, anaconda will then proceed using
> the /dev/sd{a..z} device(s), add an scsi0 alias to /etc/modprobe.conf,
> and build an initial ramdisk (using mkinitrd) in /boot so your server
> can boot from a physical or logical (e.g. RAID0/1/5 array) SCSI drive
> controlled by the PERC card. Subsequent kernel updates will
> automatically create new initrd-xxxx.img files.
>
> -- Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage
> FC5 (2.6.17-1.2145) on IBM ThinkPad A22p
> "Bob Costas for baseball commissioner"
>
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