Hi,
I was finaly able to put debian onto it.In their kernel build
mem=256M makes the ker nel read all of the available memmory. Now
that is a separate issue that machine just boots up and it does
not like any of my two network card one defalut and one from
3com.There is no virutal screens that is so common on other
distribuitns. So this is going to take a long to fix and reconfigure
all of the issues with machine. I did not think of mandrake because
i was not at all interested in X.Now the only reason to try that
is to submit defeat in front of debian.
As for machine choice i got stuck with it. There is not always
choices over choosing the box.So i am stuck with this box and
to make it work.I could not find a download page for this
stratup cd. Is it not available for download.
Bye
rnjan
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 02:59:24AM -0400, bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> It seems this machine is a terrible choice over 100 plus articles on memory
> problems with this model.
> I would update the bios. However to do this here is a catch you have to have
> a dos partition to do it.
> Why because Compaqs' get their Bios information stored off the hard drive. I
> know this all too well at
> Walter Industries we used Compuke's and this is a problem with many models.
> This is from Western Digital site .
> http://support.wdc.com/tips/index.asp?tip=39
> Some Compaq computers store the system BIOS information in a non-dos or
> diagnostic partition on the hard drive instead of storing it on a chip on
> the motherboard as most other systems do. If you have such a Compaq model
> and you install the new drive as a master, you will need to copy or
> reinstall the diagnostic partition onto the new drive. If you don't, you
> will not be able to get into your BIOS upon bootup.
>
> I even have disk from compaq that was sent to me from their engineers to
> restore the servers. We had one of these.
> They told me that if the Dos Partition with the Bios information was removed
> it would give weird and unstable results.
> This was per Proliant's, The Proliniants and some Deskpro Desktops.
>
> If you do not believe it then check compaqs downloads you will see the
> softpaq's will create this partition to load the Bios.
>
> First I would make sure if you are installing it that you choose the smp
> option for the dual processors!
> also try this link to see if it helps. From a glance there is a problem with
> 2.4 kernel loading on this machine.
> linux-hardware@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu/msg0418">http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-hardware@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu/msg0418
> 8.html
>
> I found this as well
> http://www.van-dijk.net/mailarchive/vandijk0104/0010.html
> According to this there is a problem even with 7.1 not seeing the ram. This
> guy is running 512 megs so he loaded Mandrake and it worked.
>
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/21/2000/6/0/3932844/
>
> http://clue.denver.co.us/pipermail/clue-talk/1999-June/001810.html
>
> Also before installing any distro I would always check the HCL Hardware
> Compatibility List of any OS before just loading it.
> Also try to search on www.google.com on Red Hat 7.3 Compaq 2500r
> Installation to see if you pull up any threads on such things.
>
> Good Luck
>
>
>
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] In need of dire help for Installing Linux on Compaq
> > 2500 R
> >
> > On Saturday 03 August 2002 01:06, Ranjan Sharma wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just got a comapq 2500R with pentium 200Mhz dual
> > processor
> > > 256MB ram. 5 4.3GB SCSI-3 Hard Disk controlled by Smart 2-DH
> > > controller in RAID-5. I was trying to install Redhat 7.3 on it. Which
> > > dies saying not enough ram. Serached google found some other people
> > > saying that. Now if any one else tried this and succesed so please
> > > let me know. Other wise is their a way to install Suse/Debian without
> > > connecting to internet i mean during the installation. Or should i
> > > try any other distribution. I want to make this as a Router/Mail
> > > Server/Firewall/IMAP Server No X is required.
> > > Although this has two ether net card on it. I don't want to
> > > put this on internet without configuting everyhitng. I have another
> > > pc which is running my mailserver so can not afford to connect to
> > > internet for installation.
> > >
> > > Bye
> > > ranjan
>
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