[ILUG-BOM] RHEL 3 on IBM x346

[Harsh Busa]

On 8/18/06, Nadeem M. Khan <nadeem.m.khan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
> #
>
use file cmd to see wat fformat is that file . if its an disk image
file then use
dd if=filename of=/dev/fd0  and then use it to load the drivers ... if
u use windows there are tools like rawrite to help u


> 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.
>
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