On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:10 +0000, Brandon Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, JohnS <jses27@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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Thank you very much. You understand my reasoning.....:-)
John
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