Dear all,
Thanks for the helpful suggestions.
- I MD5 checked both copies (!) of the DVD that I downloaded to my laptop and neither was correct, and both were different. I downloaded it to a separate (windows XP) computer, burned it from there and tested the media (successfully). It's now installed and (sort of!) working. (Thanks Renato, I'm getting back into the Linux way of things - after a year of no Linux I now have two boxes to play with, one at home one in the office - and I completely forgot about MD5).
(Sorry for all the questions, documentation seems thin)
- Are nVidia drivers supplied or ought I to source them independently? Due to the network policies I won't have an IP address and hence internet connectivity on the box for a few days so installing them off the disk would be ideal. (1280x720 on a 22in 1680x1050 monitor looks like arse)
- It's crashed on me three times (complete hard lock, unresponsive numlock/capslock) each time when opening the system monitor, possibly due to it trying to track 16 CPUs? I've disabled HT for now and the problem seems to have gone away.
- We would have bought it with RHEL but (a) it was indeed cheaper with XP64 AND Vista 64 bit and (b) we want to run XP64 or Vista64 in a VM at some point. The main application of the box is DFT with Spartan 08 but we'll be using the odd bit of (decidedly less CPU intensive) Windows-only software such as Berkeley Madonna.
- If there is any way I can contribute back to the project please let me know, I'm not a programmer in any way/size/shape/form but even if I can help with a little documentation I'd be happy to.
Kind regards,
--
David J. Nelson, J. M. Percy Research Group, WestCHEM
Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, The University of Strathclyde
295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland (SC015263)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Peatfield [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 05 August 2009 13:45
To: David Nelson
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Problems installing Scientific Linux 5.3 x86_64 on a Dell Precision T7500
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, David Nelson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently attempting to install Scientific Linux x86_64 5.3 on a Dell Precision T7500 workstation. The disk images (DVD images, 2 of) were downloaded to my laptop last night, burned this morning. After running 'linux mediacheck' at the boot prompt the install program starts, asks where installation is to be from, and I select CDROM. The machine spits out the disk and states that it cannot find the install disk. Pressing OK (to retry) causes the machine to take the disk back in, spin up, then spit the disk out again.
>
> I'm currently downloading the images to another machine (my laptop is a good few years old and the DVD-RW is rarely used) in order to try burning fresh disks, however the download will take a few hours and I would like to check that I am not missing something first!
>
> Machine specifications:
>
> 2x Intel Xeon E5530 CPUs; HT enabled
> 24 GB RAM
> 3 x 1TB SATA Hard Disks
> 1 x SATA DVD-RW Drive
> nVidia Quadro 295
>
> (The machine came supplied with Windows XP64, I've booted this to check that the machine works correctly, so I don't think it's a hardware fault).
My first guess would be that the installer doesn't have a driver for
whatever sata controller is used. Can you see any interesting messages on
on of the other VCs? Can you try PXE booting it or booting from (say) a
livecd or similar? (I find the ubuntu ones are quite handy for dealing
with some newer hardware esp laptops etc).
If I look at the Dell 'premier' pages it offers me a T7500 with RHEL 5.3
preinstalled so it really *should* work with SL53.
Of course by a quirk of the web site currently it is cheaper to buy the
same spec machine with a Windows licence, Doh!
-- Jon
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