On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:10 +0000, Brandon Wood wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > What's the purpose of this? Is there an rpm that triggers > something > after this step? I'm just curious about it and would like to > try it but > I have no Proliant to test on. > > > 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. > > I think what I really want to know is why use make oldconfig > when you > might have 30 more hp machines to use it on with diff hardware > unless > there are the same. Admin preference I guess. > > 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. > > > On another list I'm told there is a newer HP PSP version that comes > with an installer so all this may be moot. --- Thank you very much. You understand my reasoning.....:-) John