Fwd: RE: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

And the guy here, Scott, responds:

>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:25:47 -0400
>From: "ELLIS, SCOTT, ATTSI" <se816g at att.com>  
>
>I believe we are g5 dl380. Also, I noted the closest driver on the CD which
>I noticed shared the same cciss reference and tried that. I proceeded to
>install the driver ... It did in fact come back and say no hard drives
>found... So the comments are on to something. So, why doesn't the redhat
>linux install prompt you to somehow build or create or otherwise the log /
>phy hard drives before proceeding ??
>
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>From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com [mailto:m.roth2006 at rcn.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:18 PM
>To: ELLIS, SCOTT, ATTSI
>Subject: Fwd: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server
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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:05:47 -0400
>>From: "Broekman, Maarten" <Maarten.Broekman at FMR.COM>  
>>Subject: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server  
>>To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>>
>>What generation of DL380?  Which RHEL4 update?  We have DL380s here (G2,
>>G3, G4) and we can build off the boot CD without any problems.
>>
>>Also, you need to make sure that you've created a logical drive on the
>>hardware raid.  If there are no logical drives on the hardware raid then
>>there are 'technically' no hard drives.  If you want to use LVM, then
>>you would have to create each hard drive as it's own logical drive,
>>though I'm not sure why you want to do that.
>>
>>As Jeremy mentioned, it's definitely a cpqarray or cciss driver that
>>you're going to end up using, but that should be on the CDs already.
>>
>>Maarten Broekman
>>Email: maarten.broekman at fmr.com
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gaddis, Jeremy L.
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:57 PM
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Re: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server
>>
>>On 10/23/07, m.roth2006 at rcn.com <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, I've got a guy here - he's really a network guy, and he's trying
>>to put RHEL4 on a Proliant server, a DL380, I believe. It's *all*
>>hardware RAID, and the std. RHEL4 CDs can't id the h/d. He's tried d/l a
>>package from HP, but that unzips to a file.dd, which I'm thinking needs
>>to be dd'd to something....
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas where he needs to go?
>>
>>You'll most likely need either the cpqarray or cciss drivers.  I have
>>a pair of DL580's that are similar in hardware and that's the modules
>>needed for RHEL4 to see the (hardware RAID) volumes.
>>
>>The file.dd is probably a floppy disk image, which can be written to a
>>floppy with "dd if=file.dd of=/dev/fd0".  The drivers on that floppy
>>can then be loaded during the installation process.
>>
>>-- 
>>Jeremy L. Gaddis
>>http://www.jeremygaddis.com/
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