På 2007-08-01, skrev John Marcotte: > I am attempting to refurbish an old Intel L440GX+ -based dual P-III server. > It is currently running an outdated version of Debian. I wanted to Install > Ubuntu Server on it. > > When I installed Debian, I had to jump through some hoops, because as I > recall, the Adaptec SCSI chip on the motherboard was not supported. I think > I had to either hack the ISO, or maybe make some sort of boot floppy. > > Well five years of driver developments did not help this situation. Ubuntu > will not install. It just freezes shortly after loading the kernel. I > suspect it is the same issue. The passing of time has made good information > about this board even harder to find. Not as many people still have one, so > I can't find instructions on how to fix the problem. > > I think it has an Adaptec AIC7896/97 chipset that is causing the trouble. > Does anyone have any advice on how to get past this install issue?
I strongly suggest using the 'alternate installer' CD instead of the regular Ubuntu installer. The alternate CD provides a text-mode installer similar to the traditional Debian installer. It is much more reliable than the GUI installer. You might also want to try installing into a chroot environment within your running Debian installation using debootstrap (not the regular bootable installer). Feel free to ask for more details on this method if you choose to use it. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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