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greetings i have a few dual P3 Compaq 1850R units and use compaq smartstart 5.5 on them before a CentOS 4 load i have acquired some dual P3 Compaq DL380 G1 i.e. Generation 1 units and am wondering which specific smartstart download i should be using for them from this URL below h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/subscription/ssdownloads.asp would someone please...

hi all, i just inherit a server: Compaq ProLiant ML370 Generation 2 Server with Smart Array 5300 Controller with 6x18.2GB hard drives. i want to install centos 5 on it with hardware raid 1. any idea how? it also has a build-in and add-on ethernet cards. how do i know which one is which to assign ip? thanks. t. hiep

Hi folks, I've just spent about six hours messing around with an HP DL585 G2 server trying to get CentOS to go. This box is a dual-CPU with dual cores and 10GB of RAM total. According to the datasheet, the POST screens, and the BIOS, it has the Broadcom embedded NICs in it. The problem boils down to the installed OS (4.4 x86_64) not seeing the NICs. If you do an lspci on the system

...ironment testing. i have searched www on some things to no avail so off to the experts for some guideance please? case of: a dual Pentium 3 processor 1850R with a smart array 221 controller and quantity (4) 18 Gig SCSI hard drives in default specs RAID5 array created by the controller and Compaq Smartstart CD and i set the RAID rebuild to "highest priority"... Then, i do a custom install without Gnome or KDE of course. linux text lowres nousb nousbstorage skipddc install CentOS 4 using autopartition with a /boot 1024MB i.e. 1Gig / approx 50,000MB i.e. 50Gig everything installed perf...

This morning I ran the "SmartStart" config for the DS360 I am working with and looked at the OS selection options.or UNIX. Seems if you pick UNIX, you get a bunch of different choices including Linux... Both CPU's are detected fine now. Still strange that it worked during a local disk load.. Anyway, thanks to those...

I have an HP Server w/ a Smart Array controller I need to test. I always used to use Inquisitor for this, but the hd tests are flaking out on the cciss syntax and I don't have time to dig into it, the machine is essential and I need to know whats needing to be replaced asap. Anyone know a live cd based stress test that works on SA controllers? Thanks! jlc

Hi, I have a Compuke Proliant 5000 I would really like to use FreeBSD on When I boot to CD or floppies using 5.1 I get all the way to: "/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0" but the machine then locks up hard. When I boot to CD or floppies using 4.8 I get nothing. The machine won't boot to a 4.8 CD (that works in another machine) Any ideas on what to try next? TIA Rick

Dear All, Salam!!! Well i am using CentOS release 4.3 (Final). From the start i installed the CentOs plus kernal; CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.8.plus.c4smp) I was facing the problem, that is system poweroffs, as this was happening randomly, but always found this problem in the night or even early morning. Also i assure you that system and all applications work normally in the office timings as i use to

greetings, for those of you in the know, may i have some assistance in helping to make better decisions in purchasing more used server toys to install CentOS on please? :-) in the Compaq Proliant Rackmount DL380 line, the one that looks like the older 1850R is called a G1 meaning Generation 1 right? and then the DL380 G2 is a redesign that is gray and just has 6 drive bays up front correct?

Hi, folks, Since I've gotten a total of one response in days on the HP forum, maybe the collective mind here has an answer.... As I've mentioned in other posts, we have an HP dl580 g5 that started throwing ECC errors. But wait, it's worse: memory is mirrored.... And the thing is fully populated with 32 DIMMs. I took my best guess, pulled the matching set of DIMMs, and took two

Hello friends, I am experiencing some weird beheaviour on one of my computers. I appologize for the laconic subject, but I really don't know anything more than that. I'll tell the story in chronological order. I have an HP server with five SCSI disks. The disks are _not_ in RAID. I installed FC2 on one disk. I installed a 2.6.11.7 and used it for boot. The server runs some software

Hi, I just received a new server (HP DL180G5) with 12x 1TB HDs and I bumped into fdisks 2TB limits... Since this is an entry level server, I can't use the classic HP bootable utilities to create smaller volumes et can only create a big RAID6. I found out that: using parted, labelling it gpt and creating the partitions would do the trick. But, what about grub? I read that it does not support

Hello Everyone, I recently installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64 on a brand new ProLiant DL380 G7. I have identical OS software running reock-solid on two other DL380 ProLiant servers, but they are G6 models, not G7. On the G7, the installation went perfectly and the machine ran great for about 2 weeks, when it just seemed to "stop". The system stopped responding on the network, and there was