Re: USB keyboard compatibility with Debian

2011-01-05 Thread mat brown
> I'm thinking of getting a USB keyboard to use with my laptop. Is there > anything I should know about compatibility issues? > Some of the extra features of the fancier usb keyboards might take a bit of a configuring, but I've never had a usb keyboard which - as a basic keyboard - didn't just wo

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> I know you mention several things but just to be clear...  You did try > an install using nothing more than /dev/sda as the root partition with > everything all in one partition?  No software raid.  No lvm.  That > would be the simplest case.  If that fails what is on the screen at > that time?

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> > Of course you can unplug the drac.. eh :) > As far as I can tell (lspci, lsusb, dmesg|grep drac) there's no drac installed. the KVM access I have is through the hosting provider's own system - again, as far as I can tell. I know Dell don't officially support debian, but even so. -- To UNS

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> > try to install withhttp://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/(unofficial debian installer) > I did consider that, but seeing as I've installed both Lenny and Squeeze (not to mention Ubuntu LTS) OK, I'm not sure that it will help: it's not actually installing that's the problem. It's booting the system afte

Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
OK, this is a fun one. I recently took delivery of a new server, a Dell Poweredge R310 Intel Xeon X3440 quad core, 8GB RAM, etc. Storage is four 500GB drives, hardware RAID1 so shows up as two 500GB drives to the system. H/W controller is SAS1068e, Broadcom NIC, everything else is Intel chips. I