What model Compaq is the server? What about the SCSI/RAID controller?
When you say the install fails, what exactly happens?

I loathe most Compaq hardware, but since my company has made the decision
to standardize on it, I've got experience jumping through a few hoops
often times necessary to getting it working.

Roy


Goran Kavrecic said:
>  I have a solid piece of hardware named Compaq. It's a rack mounted
> machine with an astonishing P-200 processor and 4 SCSI disks.
>  I tried with several distributions, but all failed. Finally I managed
> to install a debian 3.0 on it. It runs a ftp/http server. Everything is
> ok.
>
>  But some time ago I discovered Gentoo and I replaced my desktop
> distribution from RH to G1.4. I'm happy with that. I would like to have
> Gentoo also on the server, just to manage a single distribution.
>
>  I tried several times installing it, but always failed. I also tried
> with the (gentoo based) Rescue CD 0.2.9 (www.sysresccd.org) which works
> great on other machines, but no luck. Now I don't know how to proceed.
>  I included a part of the booting process where the SCSI driver is
> mentioned.
>
> Can somebody help?
>
> Regards,
> Goran
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