Maarten,
Thanks, and I forwarded your response to him.
mark
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:05:47 -0400
>From: "Broekman, Maarten" <Maarten.Broekman@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server
>To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>What generation of DL380? Which RHEL4 update? We have DL380s here (G2,
>G3, G4) and we can build off the boot CD without any problems.
>
>Also, you need to make sure that you've created a logical drive on the
>hardware raid. If there are no logical drives on the hardware raid then
>there are 'technically' no hard drives. If you want to use LVM, then
>you would have to create each hard drive as it's own logical drive,
>though I'm not sure why you want to do that.
>
>As Jeremy mentioned, it's definitely a cpqarray or cciss driver that
>you're going to end up using, but that should be on the CDs already.
>
>Maarten Broekman
>Email: maarten.broekman@xxxxxxx
>
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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gaddis, Jeremy L.
>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:57 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server
>
>On 10/23/07, m.roth2006@xxxxxxx <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ok, I've got a guy here - he's really a network guy, and he's trying
>to put RHEL4 on a Proliant server, a DL380, I believe. It's *all*
>hardware RAID, and the std. RHEL4 CDs can't id the h/d. He's tried d/l a
>package from HP, but that unzips to a file.dd, which I'm thinking needs
>to be dd'd to something....
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas where he needs to go?
>
>You'll most likely need either the cpqarray or cciss drivers. I have
>a pair of DL580's that are similar in hardware and that's the modules
>needed for RHEL4 to see the (hardware RAID) volumes.
>
>The file.dd is probably a floppy disk image, which can be written to a
>floppy with "dd if=file.dd of=/dev/fd0". The drivers on that floppy
>can then be loaded during the installation process.
>
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