Difference between revisions of "Server Dell PowerEdge T410"

Revision as of 12:24, 17 August 2010

In BIOS
- Activate Virtualization support
- Power Management -> OS Control
- Report kbd errors: NO
Installing squeeze (frozen but still testing) from daily image (17/08/2010)
- Complains about missing bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw & bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j3.fw
  - Get it on another machine and put it on USB stick: aptitude install firmware-bnx2 ; cp /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-*-09-5.0.0.j3.fw /media/XXXX
  - Actually I had also an additional Intel network card so I could have skipped this step...
- Partitionning:
  there is a first primary partition for Dell Utilities (FAT16), I left it just in case...;
  there is also a second primary partition: 2Gb of FAT32, empty, so I deleted it.
  partition #2: primary 10Gb ext3 / label=ROOT
  partition #3: primary 16Gb swap
  partition #5: logical 2Tb physical volume for LVM
  Configure LVM / ok to write table / Create VG with sda5
- Tasksel: SSH & standard utilities

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 *** Actually I had also an additional Intel network card so I could have skipped this step...
 ** Partitionning: <br>there is a first primary partition for Dell Utilities (FAT16), I left it just in case...; <br>there is also a second primary partition: 2Gb of FAT32, empty, so I deleted it. <br>partition #2: primary 10Gb ext3 / label=ROOT<br>partition #3: primary 16Gb swap<br>partition #5: logical 2Tb physical volume for LVM<br>Configure LVM / ok to write table / Create VG with sda5
+** Tasksel: SSH & standard utilities