dhjdhj
October 28th, 2008, 06:55 PM
Just received a brand new Dell Poweredge 2950 Server and wanted to install Ubuntu on it.
First I tried the desktop Ubuntu but got stuck very quickly (even trying live mode) with an initramfs shell and couldn't go beyond that.
So I downloaded the 64-bit server version to try instead. It gets to the point where it does disk detection but it can't find any drive in the machine. (There's a Seagate 500Gb SATA drive in the machine). It offers to let me pick a driver but none of them worked (yeah, I tried them all -- sigh)
Just for curiosity, I then tried installing 32-bit version of the server and it had no problem detecting the drive (I don't know what driver it used though) and I quickly got to the point where I could begin partitioning the drive (and nice to see that LVM support is in there).
But I stopped there....I'd much rather get 64-bit version installed so I can access the full 16Gb of RAM installed on the machine but I've no idea (a) what driver I need (b) if it even exists and (c) how I would install it since we didn't buy a floppy drive for the machine (would USB stick work?)
Would very much appreciate suggestions for how to proceed.
Thanks in advance,
David Jameson
First I tried the desktop Ubuntu but got stuck very quickly (even trying live mode) with an initramfs shell and couldn't go beyond that.
So I downloaded the 64-bit server version to try instead. It gets to the point where it does disk detection but it can't find any drive in the machine. (There's a Seagate 500Gb SATA drive in the machine). It offers to let me pick a driver but none of them worked (yeah, I tried them all -- sigh)
Just for curiosity, I then tried installing 32-bit version of the server and it had no problem detecting the drive (I don't know what driver it used though) and I quickly got to the point where I could begin partitioning the drive (and nice to see that LVM support is in there).
But I stopped there....I'd much rather get 64-bit version installed so I can access the full 16Gb of RAM installed on the machine but I've no idea (a) what driver I need (b) if it even exists and (c) how I would install it since we didn't buy a floppy drive for the machine (would USB stick work?)
Would very much appreciate suggestions for how to proceed.
Thanks in advance,
David Jameson