Greetings,
Can anyone relate experience(s) installing CentOS on Compaq rack mount servers units please?
Easy no problem, easy some issues, or ghastly do not do it under any circumstances... ;)
Basically, I'm looking at some used/refurb dual PIII units and will run RAID on Compaq built in SCSI or is it easy to pop in some 3ware SATA in them?
Let me know in terms of CentOS 3 and/or 4 please.
Regards and TIA,
- rh
On 7/15/05, Robert Hanson roberth@abbacomm.net wrote:
Greetings,
Can anyone relate experience(s) installing CentOS on Compaq rack mount servers units please?
I have CentOS3 on a DL380, setup was no problem. I even did a mondo restore to a 2nd DL380 with different drive configs.
I run Centos3 on many 1850R's, 5500's, 6400's and 6500's without issue.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Hanson Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 2:33 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] CentOS on Compaq Proliant Rackmount Servers
Greetings,
Can anyone relate experience(s) installing CentOS on Compaq rack mount servers units please?
Easy no problem, easy some issues, or ghastly do not do it under any circumstances... ;)
Basically, I'm looking at some used/refurb dual PIII units and will run RAID on Compaq built in SCSI or is it easy to pop in some 3ware SATA in them?
Let me know in terms of CentOS 3 and/or 4 please.
Regards and TIA,
- rh
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On 7/15/05 12:33 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
Can anyone relate experience(s) installing CentOS on Compaq rack mount servers units please?
Easy no problem, easy some issues, or ghastly do not do it under any circumstances... ;)
Basically, I'm looking at some used/refurb dual PIII units and will run RAID on Compaq built in SCSI or is it easy to pop in some 3ware SATA in them?
I've not used CentOS per se, but I've done a half-dozen Red Hat and Fedora Core installations on DL380s -- some from prior with the merger with HP, some post-merger -- and everything has always just worked. The Smart Array cards produce very solid performance. I love the DL3XX product line.
Robert Hanson wrote:
Greetings,
Can anyone relate experience(s) installing CentOS on Compaq rack mount servers units please?
Easy no problem, easy some issues, or ghastly do not do it under any circumstances... ;)
Basically, I'm looking at some used/refurb dual PIII units and will run RAID on Compaq built in SCSI or is it easy to pop in some 3ware SATA in them?
Let me know in terms of CentOS 3 and/or 4 please.
Regards and TIA,
- rh
Depending on age of the 1850s and it seems all the 1600s have an issue when Anaconda is trying to detect USB. Do a no usb install on those. Also, on the 1850, if you're using a raid card, you may need to disable the onboard raid as it can be touchy. Otherwise, I have 3000Rs, 1850Rs, DL360Rs (which i won't buy again as these have been the most unreliable) and DL380s, all happily chugging along on ver 3 and ver 4 installs. I did hit some snags with LVM conflicts. I think the proprietary scsi conflicted, but setting up with disk druid has always been reliable.
John Hinton
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