Donating 500 F/OSS Computers to Schools... SATURDAY!! (Pizza & Schwag from Mozilla!!)

[Andrew Fife]

Peter Knaggs wrote:

>this bug is a good one to know about.

thanks for the tip!

>would there be any internet access from the location, to be able to search
>bug reports and such?

yep, there will be internet access.

-Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Knaggs" <peter.knaggs at gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Fife" <afife at untangle.com>
Cc: "Aaron Porter" <atporter at primate.net>, bad at bad.debian.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:15:31 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: Donating 500 F/OSS Computers to Schools... SATURDAY!! (Pizza & Schwag from Mozilla!!)

> nearly all of the systems are late 90s PIII.

If any of them have SCSI (e.g. Dell Precision 410), this bug is a good one
to know about. I ran into it trying to install Feisty:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/106864

The "trick" is:

For installing a system, press "F6" and add this
  break=top
to the kernel command line (via the bootgfx menu, accessed by pressing F6).
Once at a busybox prompt, run the command:
  modprobe aic7xxx
  modprobe piix
Then "exit" the shell.
Once the system is installed, you can add the needed modules to the
initramfs using:

By editing /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and adding
  aic7xxx
  piix
and running
  sudo update-initramfs -u

I guess we'll run into all sorts of these kinds of "gotchas" on older machines,
would there be any internet access from the location, to be able to search
bug reports and such?

Thanks,
Peter.