Topic: Major Installation Problem?

[Zephirus79]

Hey everyone, let me describe my system I want to put this on.


Its a Intel Core 2 processor with 2GB of memory and it is a genuine intel motherboard model number dq965gf.

I have 2 500GB SATA drives connected which I intend to do software raid on within SME.   They are Maxtor Quickview drives which I will link below

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2928327&CatId=2459


I come up up to install and it asks "which drive contains the packages to be installed yada yada"  I tell it CDROM.    Then it pops up a window that says "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type.  Would you like to manually select youyr driver or use a driver disk"

The CDROM in it is a CDRW/DVDRW burner drive but its not new, it doesnt even have dual layer and it is an IDE drive.   I dont think that is what its looking for.   When I go into select a driver, it shows a tond of raid controller and array drivers, but none from intel and I went on their site and looked but I dont really know what I am looking for...

Can anyone help?

[skydivers]

Is there an onboard "hardware raid" ?

[Zephirus79]

Yes, there is an option to do that but I have it disabled and the drives marked as "Legacy" configured as "IDE" so I dont know how much plainer I can get with that.       I wonder what would happen if I only used one drive...   Ill give it a shot

[Zephirus79]

Maybe it is the CDROM drive, After searching for hours, I am finding reports of the PATA chip for this motherboard not having a driver for linux...    GREAT!

[CharlieBrady]

I come up up to install and it asks "which drive contains the packages to be installed yada yada"

If you see that, it means that the CDROM hasn't been detected or isn't readable by linux.

The BIOS was able to start up the installer (by reading kernel and init ramdisk into memory), but the linux kernel doesn't see a CDROM to load the rest of the install program.

[Zephirus79]

Charlie where were you an hour ago?   LOL!  

I read somewhere that that was the case, so I thought to myself "well if the CD drive wont work, what are my options?"

Luckilly enough this motheboard supports booting from the USB ports so I actually BOOTED it from the CD and then when it asked where the installation files were, I told it "hard drive" and it went perfectly.     I told it "hard drive" cause that is how it mounted the USB Thumb Drive on startup....I think it was SDA.  

First time I did it, it failed cause I extracted the ISO onto the thumbdrive.... DONT DO THIS!      Amazingly enough, it uses the actual .iso!     Just copy the iso file to your thumbdrive and you are good to go.


As far as the CD ROM goes, I dont REALLY need it.   This is going to be a RAID fileserver and if I need to pull data off of the drives for whatever reason, Ill use a thumbdrive or do it across the network.

[pcdoc]

I am having the same problem with an Intel DG33FB mainboard, boots from DVD/CD-ROM. I have use the same drive, not just same model, on other installs. Bios is set to legacy but the message "Do driver found" comes up.

Any thoughts, apart from put ISO on memory stick?

[pcdoc]

Right, just for the record. Did some more searching of Centos and Redhat specific sites. Finally found the answer thanks to g-ding.tv site.

It pointed me to http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/11/10/how-to-install-fedora-core-6-on-intel-dg965ss-motherboard/ which identified and fixed the problem.

The fix - install with

>sme all-generic-ide

and it will just work, without changing anything in the bios.

[Normando]

This TIP requiere a wiki page!

[cactus]

This TIP requiere a wiki page!

I guess an entry in the FAQ will do... something like this: http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Installer_prompts_for_installation_file_location ?

[Normando]

I guess an entry in the FAQ will do... something like this: http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Installer_prompts_for_installation_file_location ?

Thank you Cactus.