[CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

Tue Mar 4 22:31:08 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Kenny Noe wrote:
> My apologies....  what is top post and how am I doing this?
>
> I thought I was just replying to the mailing list...   Hit reply and type
> my message.  (I'm such a noobie)
>
> I did find dd files that have the driver update but am lost on trying to
> get these into the install.  Sorry but I don't understand what you are
> saying.
>
> I appreciate your willingness to help and all the others that have
> replied.
>  My apologies for being frustrating.  I'll have to read more.

You just top posted, again. #0: fuck Outlook, and anything like it.
FOLLOW, or intercollate, with the responses to your email. Follow, as in
put your response AT THE BOTTOM, of the email, not the top.

Just the way I'm responding to the email, above. Think of it as a
conversation - you know what someone's said, *before* you respond. Top
posting means I have no idea what you're responding to - you're not
talking to someone in person.... And for anyone coming into an email
thread late... I, and I think most folks, have *zero* intention of going
to the bottom of an email which contains everything said in the thread,
esp. with nothing edited out, and reading down a message, then paging up
to read the response, then paging up *again* to read the next response.

That's a M$ asinine introduction, and I despise it, since it makes it
incredibly difficult to follow what's going on.

I dunno, though - just dd'ing in the driver isn't going to work, if you
mean that you dd'd the driver itself in, or was there an .rpm? If the
latter, you need to find out what it does when it installs - where the
actual driver's supposed to go, in what subdirectory, and then, of course,
the last step would be to insmod it, and *then* rebuild the initrd so that
it's included on boot.

       mark
>
> Regards   --Kenny
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:58 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> Kenny Noe wrote:
>> > The link to the B120i array drivers pointed me to several rpm files
>> that
>> > contain the driver.  The instructions are pretty straight forward and
>> even
>> > have a back out SOP.  OK I've installed rpms before but that's from a
>> > bootable OS.  I don't have that now.. I've searched for an ISO or
>> other
>> > means to install but my google-fu failes...  Help!
>> >
>> Please don't top post.
>>
>> Boot off a DVD, or whatever. chroot to the system, assuming you can see
>> the drives, and yum localinstall. If you can't see the drives... anyone
>> ever tried to yum install into the running rescue system?
>>
>>        mark
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:36 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Kenny Noe wrote:
>> >> > Thanks again to all the replies...
>> >> >
>> >> > If we purchased a "true" HP RAID HW controller, like the P222 512mb
>> >> FBWC
>> >> > or P420 1GB FBWC, would this work?  I've read online that folks are
>> >> having
>> >> > troubles with getting drives recognized in CentOS.
>> >> >
>> >> > Also HP states the fakeraid driver is available for RedHat Linux 6
>> but
>> >> not
>> >> > CentOS.   Has anyone installed this? Thoughts / Comments?
>> >>
>> >> It will work. Worst case scenario is: on Dells, trying to run OMSA on
>> a
>> >> running system, if /etc/issue (!) says that it's redhat santiago
>> >> whatever,
>> >> it runs. Some idiot put that check in (even though their bootable
>> ISOs
>> >> are
>> >> CentOS).
>> >>
>> >> Several years ago, I was introduced to self-abuse (that is, tech
>> support
>> >> from a company which shall remain nameless, but who *must* keep their
>> >> profits up to pay for their CEO's fighter jet, and Hawaiian island,
>> >> and....) The first engineer I spoke with got huffy, telling me they
>> >> "didn't support CentOS", etc. I got them to give me another engineer
>> >> (and
>> >> another, and another....)
>> >>
>> >> So it should be perfectly fine to run their driver.
>> >>
>> >>          mark
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm testing on my box now and will post my results.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks    --Kenny
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:12 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> From: Kenny Noe <knoe501 at gmail.com>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Well shoot!  Thanks for the link.  Definitely explains allot!
>> I'm
>> >> >> going
>> >> >> to
>> >> >> > update the box with the latest HP SPP and double check the
>> updated
>> >> >> driver
>> >> >> > is available.
>> >> >> > With this RAID controller and 4x 1TB are there any
>> recommendations
>> >> on
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> > best way to install CentOS?  Should I skip the controller,
>> config
>> >> disk
>> >> >> as
>> >> >> > JBOD and RAID from there?  I'd like to get the OS on a RAID but
>> >> should
>> >> >> I
>> >> >> > just build the OS on one disk and then RAID the remaining three?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> If you use HP's fakeraid driver:
>> >> >> - you can use HP raid tools.
>> >> >> - your disks will be smartarray compatible, you can plug them on a
>> >> real
>> >> >> smart array they will just work.
>> >> >> - you are dependent on HP to release new drivers for the new OS
>> >> releases
>> >> >> on time...
>> >> >> - HP new policy: out of warranty, no more updates (except
>> security?)
>> >> for
>> >> >> you...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> if you use AHCI + mdraid:
>> >> >> - simple, standard, etc...
>> >> >> - not "smartarray compatible".
>> >> >>
>> >> >> JD
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