FC6 on Dell Poweredge 6300

[David Timms]

Andrew Mather wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to install FC6 on an (ancient) Dell Poweredge 6300 machine 
> that's
> currently running RH7.2.
> 
> It's a quad-xeon 500MHz machine with 4Gb of RAM.
> 
> It has a bunch of SCSI drives attached to an Adaptec 7840 (or is it 7860,
> not near the machine right now) SCSI controller.
> There are two other Adaptec controllers in the machine, one of which has 
> the
> tape drive and CDROM. of the 3 controllers, 2 are the same (either 7840, or
> 7860) and the other is the other of these.  Now that's clear isn't it ?
> ;-)
> 
> The installer just keeps rebooting the machine at the point where it tries
> to load the aic7xxx diver module.
> 
> We've tried booting with the noprobe option and then manually loading the
> module and have tried a couple of options to the module itself, but it
> either hangs, or reboots at the same point.
> 
> At one point, we got it to the graphical installer stage, but no drives 
> were
> visible.
> 
> Has anyone managed to get FC6 (or even 5 or 4 will do) on this sort of
> hardware and if so, are there any tips you could pass on, or resources we
> could find ?
> 
> Google hasn't been much help.
Haven't got one of those but
Did you check out linux.dell.com ?
and google {modelno} site:linux.dell.com ?

DaveT.