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Just a couple of notes on installing Gentoo Linux (2004.0) onto a Fortress 9100. (Some of them apply to any distribution, but that's your problem.) The install was fairly painless and mostly by the book. But...
Before you start: the onboard SCSI adapter will detect SCA drives from right to left, so the drive in the right-hand slot will be /dev/sda, the drive in the left-hand slot /dev/sdb. (Or more specifically, the SCSI adapter will assign LUN 0 to the right-hand slot, LUN 1 to the left-hand slot.) I don't know if it does this for non-SCA drives. Be sure you've got the drives in the right place before you start the install.
Booting from the Gentoo 2004.0 LiveCD works fine (I used the 'Universal' one optimized for P3); when asked for boot options, I used: 'smp nohotplug doscsi.
For some reason something seemed to hang in the hotplug detection the first time.
The boot process did not detect the dual onboard ethernet ports, likely because 'nohotplug' specified, so once you're booted issue a modprobe eepro100 and both will get detected.
Since the network ports didn't get detected the network wasn't automatically setup. I was behind a DHCP router so I just setup the network with net-setup eth0. (BTW, eth0 is the LAN port on the power input side)
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