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