On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:36 -0600, mark wrote: > So, at work today, I realized I had to rebuild this server - it was on RHEL 3, > and it really needed 4 (corporate hasn't looked at 5 yet). > > It's a Dell PowerEdge 850 - a blade. I, foolishly, put in the RHEL CDs that > came with all these systems.... and the RH install program can't find the CD it > booted from. After much irritation, I find a Dell package of CDs that you are > apparently supposed to boot from; it's even got an install for RHEL 4. Great. > > AND SOME COMPLETE JACKASS AT DELL - what was this, release 8.9, and all by kids > for whom this was their first job out of school? - FORCE YOU TO FORMAT ALL > PARTITIONS. No options. No letting the RH install Disk Druid do it. > > So everything I had aside on /opt is toast, and that'll be hours more work. > > No, I can't recommend this crap. > > mark > the partitioning options in the dell OS installer cds are so inflexible that its basically functionless - except for one thing. if the rhel doesn't have the raid controller drivers built in yet, ive used their cds to install the OS. after the os is installed i use lvm to create the partitioning scheme that i want. this happens when dell releases a new perc, and rh hasnt released a minor update that includes the drivers...its happened with every dell hardware release in the last few years. there's always a time period where i have to use those damn cds...horrible. on the other hand, dell's openmanage and linux hardware support is far superior to ibm and hp, especially from a monitoring standpoint with the up2date/yum openmanage repos. if youre into mailing lists, you should look at subscribing to some of dell's if you're not already on them... here's their linux list homepage: http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo there are occasionally useful threads on the poweredge list: http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge -- aichains <aichains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
