Every manufacture has a different key to press to get to the boot menu. I list my drives in the computer like this.įind out how to boot off of the USB flash drive. WARNING!! If you use dd make sure you write to the correct /dev/sdX drive. If have Linux installed already you can run the dd command to install the ISO to the USB flash drive. Install the ISO file to a USB flash drive using one of these tools. ( Recommended - includes non-free firmware) If you need non-free firmware to have drivers to set up for hardware such as WiFi use this ISO file to install Debian. In that case, you will need the 32-bit ISO (i386) file. For example, if your computer is really old it might not support 64-bit (amd64). Pick the architecture supported by your computer.

Set up RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)ĭownload the amd64 Debian 11 Bullseye firmware-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso file from the website.

What can you do with a Linux server? Here are some examples. If you have some old hardware laying around such as a You can use almost any computer for this. Sed -i 's/xe4x14x00x00x3ax16x00x00/xe4x14x00x00x3bx16x00x00/' bnx2.koĪs the systems needed to run OpenVZ, I used the same patch on the Debian supplied OpenVZ kernel, works like a charm.Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen modeĪfter installing the full Xfce desktop the RAM usage increased to 311 megabytes. I didn't use the complete install hook here, just ran the patch on the bnx2.ko kernel module before generating the new initrd image for the netboot. Ofcourse you can recompile the kernel to fix this, but there is also a quick and easy fix:

The card has a PCI id of 14e4:163b, but the driver only recognises card with PCI id 14e4:163a. Just update the initrd image with the non-free firmware package.īut then the network cards are still not detected.

But there is plenty to find about this on the net, and it is an easy fix. It is no longer included in the Debian installer as the package has been moved to non-free. The first part was the firmware that is required for these cards to work. They do netboot fine, but when booting a netinstall of Debian, the installer doesn't find the network cards. Dell uses Broadcom Netextreme II cards in these systems. A quick jumpstart of a Dell R210 turned out to be a little bit of a problem.

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