Ronald Prettyman

So I’ve searched the internet for a cheat sheet, closes I find is users using sata pci cards and booting off those.

Now this didn’t seem like an option to me cause I’ve already added usb and GbE to the PCI bus and already have an excess of FC-AL drives I got off ebay for next to nothing (guessing they were someones spares left over after retiring a server)

So I tried again to install debian during install it ask for EDIT THIS q22xxx.bin firmware. So I googled it. Nothing. So I decided to dig a little dipper. EDIT DETAILS

lspci
and
lsmod
Gave me enough information to then google and find that EDIT qlogic doesn’t do opensource firmware so firmware was proprietary. Also found that in dmesg it gives an ftp site to download said firmware. But better yet apt-cache search EDIT qlogic yields that in the non-free repository this be the firmware. So I download it, setup networking in the install, pull the extracted firmware from my main system over http and put it in /lib/firmware rerun the scan and good to go.

I ended up doing an install. Setting up a degraded raid on my second drive, migrating the install then initalizing the raid on first boot.

Didn’t want to wait for the intial raid to setup so I took a short cut.

Sound was also a bitch to get working tried to manually add the kernel module with modprobe then rerun alsa scan, still didn’t take then ran EDIT alsaconf and was good to go.

Ended up installing the debian desktop under tasksel then switched it to xfce4 and xdm.