Re: CentOS 4.4

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:12 -0500, Mark Hammerton wrote:
> I know i am asking about CentOS, but needed some assistance if anyone
> had any experience with installing CenTOS 4.4with a HighPoint 2220
> RAID card.
> 
> All the driver disks on HighPoints site dont seem to work, I am nt
> sure if it is because CentOS 4.4 comes with a 2.6.9-42 kernel and the
> only drivers that are provided by highpoint in the modles.cgz are only
> modules for the 2.6.9-33 kernel.

Uh, yeah, that's an issue.

> Has anyone had any experience with using the HighPoint 2220 sata II
> raid card? 

Looking at their website, you could download a driver for CentOS 4.3
(2.6.9-34 kernel) at this URL:

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20+%
20Driver/rr2220/Linux/RR222x-RHEL4U3-1.03-0404.tgz

then upgrade to a later CentOS (such as 4.5) via yum.

Note, however, that you'd need to build the driver from source (which
is available) for the new CentOS' kernel BEFORE you boot it if you
installed CentOS on a drive on this controller.  The alternate is to
update via yum, but specifically exclude updating the kernel by using
"--exclude=kernel*" on the yum command line:

	# yum -y --exclude=kernel* update

The downside to that is while the rest of the system is CentOS 4.5,
you're still running a CentOS 4.3 kernel.  Building a driver generally
isn't a really hard thing to do for the technically minded, but it can
be daunting if you've never done it before.

> my LAN is your LAN 

I'd highly suggest installing a firewall there, buddy!  :-)

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