CentOS - Apr 2008 - dmidecode for CentOS 2.1? [hardware serial number and type]

Hi CentOS users

I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see
serial number and machine type?

It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1

cheers
Simon

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Simon Jolle wrote:
> Hi CentOS users
> 
> I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see
> serial number and machine type?
> 
> It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1
You might be able to run dmidecode from CentOS 3

I can run dmidecode taken from the CentOS3 kernel-utils RPM on an old 
Redhat 7.2 box, so it might work on a CentOS 2.1 box.

You can download the RPM from:

<http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.15.i386.rpm>

James Pearson

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/lshw/lshw-2.08.01-1.el2.rf.i386.rpm

Should work


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:30 +0200, Simon Jolle wrote:
> Hi CentOS users
> 
> I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see
> serial number and machine type?
> 
> It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1
> 
> cheers
> Simon
> 
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rpm -qf /usr/sbin/dmidecode
kernel-utils-2.4-6.1.EL

CentOS 2 is not dead yet.

dmidecode does exist and should work fine.

John.

Simon Jolle wrote:
> Hi CentOS users
> 
> I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see
> serial number and machine type?
> 
> It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1
> 
> cheers
> Simon
> 

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John Newbigin
ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin