Installing Debian 2.2 (Potato) on a Dell PowerEdge 2550 or 2500 server.

You can download debian boot-floppies for pe2550 (and pe2500) at

http://www.hem.net/doc/linux/pe2550_boot-floppies/

Download the files resc1440.bin, root1440.bin and drv1440.bin

If you don't know how to create the floppies from the binary images, there are good instructions on debians installtion page

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy

The aaraid patch is now included in the latest version of the Debian kernel-source packages.


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Comments, corrections, additions and critiques are always welcome. You can reach me at Ingemar.Fallman@hem.net