And the guy here, Scott, responds: >Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:25:47 -0400 >From: "ELLIS, SCOTT, ATTSI" <se816g@xxxxxxx> > >I believe we are g5 dl380. Also, I noted the closest driver on the CD which >I noticed shared the same cciss reference and tried that. I proceeded to >install the driver ... It did in fact come back and say no hard drives >found... So the comments are on to something. So, why doesn't the redhat >linux install prompt you to somehow build or create or otherwise the log / >phy hard drives before proceeding ?? > >-----Original Message----- >From: m.roth2006@xxxxxxx [mailto:m.roth2006@xxxxxxx] >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:18 PM >To: ELLIS, SCOTT, ATTSI >Subject: Fwd: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server > > > >---- 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 >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >>[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. >> >>-- >>Jeremy L. Gaddis >>http://www.jeremygaddis.com/ >> >>-- >>redhat-list mailing list >>unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> >> >>-- >>redhat-list mailing list >>unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >________________ >smime.p7s (6k bytes) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
