[CentOS] Can I install CentOS 4.2 on Sun X4100?

Benjamin Smith lists at benjamindsmith.com
Sat Jan 7 07:24:37 UTC 2006


There's a howto for switching from Whitebox, I'd imagine that ES to CentOS 
would be similar: 
http://centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19

I took the above FAQ and made a working script you're free to play with: 
http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/wbel2centos4.sh

Good luck. 

On Friday 06 January 2006 19:47, Sungsoo Kim wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> I want to change current RHEL 4.0 ES  into CentOS 4.2 on Sun X4100 server.
> The server has SAS SCSI based two 2.5" hard disks.
> I could only install RHEL 4.0 Update 1 because the server is equipped with
> RHEL 4.0 Update 1's device driver only.
> 
> I've included below the boot process messages concerned with SCSI 
controller.
> If it's possible for me to install CentOS 4.0 on my X4100, I am ready to
> switch to it.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Sungsoo Kim
> 
> 
> -------------------
> 
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Fusion MPT base driver 3.02.18
> Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
> ioc0: SAS1064: Capabilities={Initiator}
> Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.02.18
> scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1064, FwRev=01040000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=203, IRQ=209
>   Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G   Rev: 0301
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> SCSI device sda: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
>  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
>   Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G   Rev: 0301
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> SCSI device sdb: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
>  sdb: sdb1
> Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> 

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