Server Dell PowerEdge T410
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Install notes
- 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, called DATA - Tasksel: SSH & standard utilities
- Reboot
- Complains about missing bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw & bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j3.fw
- SSH: PermitRootLogin no / ssh-copy-id ...