<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, JohnS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jses27@gmail.com">jses27@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">What's the purpose of this? Is there an rpm that triggers something</div>
after this step? I'm just curious about it and would like to try it but<br>
I have no Proliant to test on.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, you are right this is a part of the document I should explain some. The HP OpenIPMI package compiles a kernel driver and it looks for the config and autoconf.h files in the kernel source directory. There may be a better way of doing this. </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I think what I really want to know is why use make oldconfig when you<br>
might have 30 more hp machines to use it on with diff hardware unless<br>
there are the same. Admin preference I guess.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>As for deploying on multiple machines again you are right, that does pose an issue. I am not an experienced admin so I may just be going about things the wrong way. I just decided to throw the information out there as I was unable to find any better documentation and wanted to help others who run in to the same issue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On another list I'm told there is a newer HP PSP version that comes with an installer so all this may be moot.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the reply though.</div><div>-Brandon</div></div>