Debian Lenny installation on HP Proliant and missing bnx2-09-4.0.5.fw driver
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Jun 22, 2010 09:57 AM
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information how to prepare additional usb drive with network driver for new HP Proliant servers
Last days I was installing (through the ILO2) Debian Lenny on quite new HP Proliant G6 servers.
Basically, during installation process I didn't meet any problems, only at some point installer asked me for additional driver for network interface:
Below I attach small info how to prepare iso of usb disk with this drivers to use with Virtual Media functionality of iLoÆ
$ wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_0.25.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf firmware-nonfree_0.25.tar.gz
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=firmware_bnx.iso seek=100b count=1
$ mkfs.vfat firmware_bnx.iso
$ mkdir /tmp/firmware
$ sudo mount firmware_bnx.iso /tmp/firmware -o loop
$ sudo cp firmware-nonfree/bnx2/* /tmp/firmware
After above operations we have usb iso called firmware_bnx.iso.
Such prepared iso we can mount using Virtual Media:
Links:
- http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant - Debian Wiki page
- http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html -HP documents about Debian
- http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/default.aspx?cc=uk&lc=en&oid=3884082 - official documentation
- http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c00802520&doctype=reference%20guide&doclang=EN_US&searchquery=&cc=uk&lc=en - official pdf about Debian installation
