[ale] NCR 5380 SCSI Adapter Slackware vs RedHat

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, John Clover wrote:

> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:15:25 -0400
> From: John Clover <jclover at digital.horizons.net>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] NCR 5380 SCSI Adapter Slackware vs RedHat
> 
> I've been struggling with a Compaq Prolient 1600R with a NetFlex
> Controller, I tried the slackware bootdisk for the n_5380.s (NCR 5380)
> and it finds the SCSI Device but times out, and aborts on scanning the
> SCSI Bus... So.. In order to get the server up and running, I got a
> RedHat boot disk, and wow.. it detected the scsi card and the drive.. I
> Really don't want to run RedHat... if anyone knows how to convience the
> n_5380.s boot disk to find and use the drive correclty, be it Linux
> boot: options or anything, I'd love to get this system up running
> slackware and not RedHat.
> 
	I can understand not wanting to run RedHat... I only run it here
on our DEC Alphas because it's the most stable Alpha version available at
this time... by the boot disk you are trying it sounds like you are trying
to install Slackware... I personally like Slackware and have used it for 5
years up until last week when I reformated my drive and install'd Debian
2.0 (hamm) which I have been quite impress'd with... Goto ftp.debian.org
(which happens to be a GA Tech) or I have the disks-i386 on a FTP server
locally in our office on a DS-3... the install disks are on ftp.debian.org
in the /pub/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386 directory... the install.txt file
explains it all but basic run-down is have 8 floppies (boot, root, drivers
and 5 base diskettes) and download resc1440.bin, root.bin, drv1440.bin and
the base14-[12345].bin images and dd or rawrite them to the diskettes...
by installing that you have the basic system WITH ppp support... You
reboot and then run dselect and pick the packages you want... You could
come on IRC on irc.dal.net:7000 in #Linux and if I'm around I'll help you
or I'm sure one of the others in there would or answer any other questions
you may have...
	Sincerely,
	Jeremy T. Bouse
	System Administrator
	SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc.

    Jeremy T. Bouse - SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc - www.STSI.net
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