CentOS - Apr 2005 - CentOS and HP Drivers

I am debating installing CentOS on a new HP DL580 with an MSA1000 SAN.
HP offers drivers that are specific to RHEL and will not install on
other RH distros i.e. RH 9.

Has anyone gotten the HP SupportPack to install under CentOS?

Thanks!

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Mark A. Lewis wrote:
> I am debating installing CentOS on a new HP DL580 with an MSA1000 SAN.
> HP offers drivers that are specific to RHEL and will not install on
> other RH distros i.e. RH 9.
> 
> Has anyone gotten the HP SupportPack to install under CentOS?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
Actually, yes.  I've got a pair of Proliant DL-140s running CentOS 3.4 
that are running the Proliant Support Pack.  I had to hack the contents 
of the /etc/redhat-release file to get it installed, but once done it 
works just great.  Each of the two boxes has an FC controller and it is 
attached to our SAN, we're running Oracle 10g in RAC mode.  I've also 
got some DL-320s running CentOS 3 and the PSP.

Hope that helps!
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Hi,

I find myself in the lucky position to receive a new desktop machine 
tomorrow. :)

Now, for quite a while I've been wanting to make a switch to any Unix 
based system for my normal work environment (= Web development), but I 
will still need to test my work on Windows as well.

Now.... As tomorrow I will install a fresh new machine (with a 40GB HD), 
I'd like to do the following:
-Install CentOS as primary OS on a 30GB partition.
-Install W*nd*ws XP as secondary system on a 10GB partition.
-Plug in my current secondary NTFS drive for storing additional W*nd*ws 
stuff.

What I'm uncertain about, is the proper way to do this, and the order in 
which to install both OSes.

Can anyone give me an answer to the following?
-Which OS can best be installed first, CentOS or XP?
-Are there special actions required to enable proper dual booting?
-Which boot manager can be used best CentOS' one or XP's one?
-Can CentOS read (and perhaps also write?) from the NTFS partitions?
-Hypothetically: would installing VMWare and installing XP in that give 
me pretty much 100% XP compatibility for at the very least the various 
web browsers such as IE, and also for XP Office?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers,
Olafo

> > Has anyone gotten the HP SupportPack to install under CentOS?
> of the /etc/redhat-release file to get it installed, but once done it
> works just great.  Each of the two boxes has an FC controller and it is
PSP on Centos will not get installed just by hacking redhat-relase,
hack the /etc/redhat-release, then start installtion, it will miss
couple of packages, u need to install thoses RPMS, by rpm -ivh --force
--nopre <Package>, re-run the install process and skip the forced
installed packages...works coool

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