Installing debian on pc with Silicon image Sil 0860 ide controller

[Thomas Langewouters]

Hello,

I want to install debian woody onto a pc with an ide raid card (the onboard controller doesnt support the large 40GB disk, it's a ibm pentium 166)

When I start the setup it says it hasn't found an hard disk, and that I should load a module from floppy.
Do I have to compile the module and put it on a floppy? How do I do that? build the module on another computer?
If so, where do I find the kernel source? (i have the Lordsuch.com net install cd and bf2.4 boot floppy set)
Can someone help me on this?

Thanks
Thomas
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[horne]

Thomas Langewouters scribbled:

>
> Hello,
>
> I want to install debian woody onto a pc with an ide raid card (the
> onboard controller doesnt support the large 40GB disk, it's a ibm pentium
> 166)
>
> When I start the setup it says it hasn't found an hard disk, and that I
> should load a module from floppy. Do I have to compile the module and put
> it on a floppy? How do I do that? build the module on another computer? If
> so, where do I find the kernel source? (i have the Lordsuch.com net
> install cd and bf2.4 boot floppy set) Can someone help me on this?

If the IDE RAID card is an on-board controller and it cannot handle a 40 GB
hard disk, then perhaps you could use a smaller hard disk as the primary
master drive and the 40 GB hard disk as the primary slave drive. You
should be able to locate a cheap (as in price) 10 GB hard disk online or at
a local refurbished computer/parts reseller.

Alternatively, disbale the on-board IDE controller and insert an IDE board
into the computer expansion slot to handle the 40 GB hard disk.

There are no problems, only opportunities. ;-)

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[Thomas Langewouters]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 01:00:43 GMT
horne <horne@member.fsf.org> wrote:

| Thomas Langewouters scribbled:
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| If the IDE RAID card is an on-board controller and it cannot handle a 40 GB
| hard disk, then perhaps you could use a smaller hard disk as the primary
| master drive and the 40 GB hard disk as the primary slave drive. You
| should be able to locate a cheap (as in price) 10 GB hard disk online or at
| a local refurbished computer/parts reseller.
|
| Alternatively, disbale the on-board IDE controller and insert an IDE board
| into the computer expansion slot to handle the 40 GB hard disk.
|
| There are no problems, only opportunities. ;-)
|
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| Free Software Foundation (FSF) Associate Member 499
| Linux Counter Statistics: UserID 277671
| LindowsOS v4.0 (Linux kernel 2.4.20) Elite-II Zero-Footprint PC

The card I'm using is an expansion card, because the onboard controller can't handle that large disk.
(the computer is an old ibm ? with an intel pentium 166 so I'm not suprised...)
It will be used as server, so putting in an extra powereating harddisk is not a good idea.
I installed gentoo linux and redhat 9 on that computer with ease but:
* Gentoo: Sshd doesn't respond on that server while emerging and also my workstations' internet is all messed up then. (btw, gentoo rocks my desktop!)
* Redhat: The configuration files seemed to have moved to weird places, and it's not easy to use three different distro's with all different locations. Plus: I don't like rpm.
* Debian: I'm running it on the server that should be replaced, and It's doing its job great. Apt-get is realy comfortable.

Debian seems to be the best solution, but I don't understand how it is installed and how I get it to suport that card. the kernel-config file that came with the images listed yes after the controller...

Thomas.

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