[ILUG-BOM] RHEL 3 on IBM x346

[Nadeem M. Khan]

On 8/19/06, Harsh Busa <harsh.busa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Nadeem M. Khan <nadeem.m.khan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am trying to install RHEL AS 3 on IBM xSeries 346, but it fails to
> > detect my hard disks. It fails to get a driver for Adaptec SCSI
> > controller. Cribs about aic7xxx.
>
> chk for certification of RHEL 3 on that specific model of x346. You
> should be able to get some how / patches from IBM site

Well thanks for the info. Fortunately I managed to get hold of the
.img.gz file off the net. Unfortunately, I am not able to gunzip it.

# gunzip aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz

gunzip: aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz: not in gzip format

# file aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz

aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c,
OEM-ID " mkdosfs", root entries 224, sectors 2880 (volumes <=32 MB) ,
sectors/FAT 9, serial number 0x40774d07, label: "           ", FAT (12
bit)
#

I dd'ed it as it is to the floppy and tried to use it at install time,
but it failed to load. "Failed to load driver from /dev/fd0".

Regards,
NMK.