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 for the reply though. -Brandon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100624/1ba29bb3/attachment-0005.html>