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CentOS 4 and older megaraid driver

Getting a Dell PowerEdge 4300 with a PERC2 card to function under Centos 4.

http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy-Megaraid-Drivers.html

Dell PowerEdge 4300 server.
CentOS 4.4 (because that one has a single server CD installer).
Compiling the megaraid driver
Install the appropriate kernel-devel for your installation media. In the case of CentOS 4.4, that was 2.6.9-42. This machine was also a multiprocessor model, so the smp version was needed. CentOS needs 586 versions for the installer but needs 686 versions in order to run, so both will need to be compiled.

Dell OptiPlex 755 SFF

Custom Unattended Linux Boot CD
The onboard ethernet controller on these computers was not supported by the Unattended Linux boot CD so a custom disk had to be compiled with the necessary driver.

mkdir /extra
cd /extra
wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/unattended/unattended
-4.7.zip
unzip unattended-4.7.zip
cd unattended-4.7/linuxboot

Download the necessary source files for compilation (this could take a bit of time):

make download

Remove the old E1000 driver files:

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Dell Vostro 1400

Reinstall of the Dell Vostro 1400 laptops required a variety of drivers. They were installed in the order recommended by Dell by placing them in numbered folders within $oem$\$1\drivers\V1400\###

  1. Notebook System Software
    R154270 - install via script (see below)
  2. Chipset
    R153997 - Intel Chipset
    R154200 - Intel SATA Chipset
  3. Video Adapter
    R165797

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