Fedora Core on Dell PowerEdge 4600
After failing miserably (this whole week!) to run Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on Dell PowerEdge 4600, today I had successfully installed Fedora Core 6 on the box. At first when I get the chance to work with the quite-old-server (6 years old), I wasn't aware about any OS related issues with it, so I just go on with my favourite distro (Ubuntu) and formatted the whole disks and install Intrepid as the server's new operating system. But then whenever the box was rebooted, the only thing that appear after the BIOS startup were "Error Loading Operating System" and "Missing Operating System". At first, I thought it was my fault that maybe I have done something wrong during installation process, RAID settings, etc. but then after trying several times I am sure that it was caused by the box itself. Googling for the problem doesn't help much. When I came across PE4600 user guide, I found that the only operating system supported by PE4600 are:
- Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 Server
- Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server and Advanced Server
- Red Hat Linux 7.x
- Novell® NetWare® version 5.x
No wonder the installation before were complete failure. Then I look for other Linux OS on the CD archive but most of them were either damaged, "partial" (missing parts) or outdated (...and they have about 5 same-version-Ubuntu discs..wow!). The only working discs were Fedora Core 6 (in 4 CDs), a 2006 distro...duh! I have no choice but to use it because:
- - the PE4600 can only read CDs as it has no DVD drive (...it's really fucking old...)
- - no more CDs stock at the moment..
- - I've wrongly downloaded the Fedora 10 live CD, and the installation failed on that..
- - Fedora has somewhat relation with RHL, I "think" it will meet the OS requirement..
- - .....I'm in a hurry!
Inserted the first CD, choose the options and remove all GUI leaving only the core components, and there it goes...a smooth and successful installation!
The "new" box is running, but without a proper network connection. Then I reconfigure the network settings, set up the static IP address for eth0 adapter (the other two NIC slots were not used). The box were running fine on the network, but without connection to WAN. damn!...I forgot to add the NameServer record.
Edited the /etc/resolv.conf file and added the DNS server's address, nameserver 10.x.x.x, to the record and walla!...a success!
*side note: Kris Allen won A.I 2009!...suck. Adam was way better...so does Allison
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