On Nov 9, 2007 8:46 AM, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve Phillips wrote: > > mark wrote: > >> And if this is "accepted" as common, then I reiterate, it's amateur, > >> in the *worst* sense of the word. I wanted to save all the data, as > >> I'd doing an upgrade of a full release. As I said in my article in the > >> July SysAdmin magazine, it's always better to do a full install when > >> going up a full release, since nobody gives you a good way to do that, > >> as they do for a subrelease upgrade. > > > > You will probably find that this is simply a driver issue with, not so > > much the CD ROM drive but the controller it is attached to. > > I'm sure it's a driver issue. But I haven't had that kind of problem - where it > couldn't find the CD drive it had booted off - since the first time I put Linux > on a laptop, what, in the late nineties. > > > > You will probably find that the controller is newer than the linux > > distribution that you are using, I would almost put money on the fact > > that you could download the latest RHEL 5 cds and everything would work. > > a) It's a Dell PowerEdge 850. We bought it well over a year ago. RHEL 4, > subrelease whatever (Nahant?), is not that old; further, it *came* *with* the > server. > b) RHEL 5 is not an option. It would have to be approved by corporate, and > that's not going to happen soon. This is not for me at home, this is me, > working at a huge, Fortune 50 company. I have no options on this. > > > > You will probably also find that you can download a driver disk from > > I've already used their crap. And found even more "fun" (for *very* small > values of fun): IT INSTALLS LINUX FOR YOU. They've apparently got a kickstart > file in there, and you have no choice of what you want. It also puts things in > non-standard places. Java, for example, seems to be under /usr/share. Since Sun > wants it under /usr/java, and that's the way it's installed everywhere else, it > completely breaks our software builds. > > > dell which will probably contain instructions on how to use the driver > > to get a bootable image up and running so you can do an install off > > standard media. > > The "quick start" guide doesn't even offer comments to that effect. > <snip> > > Take satisfaction that in a years time when someone else posts the same > > complaint about $company and their braindead 'restore cd process' you > > can chuckle away knowing that you've been in a similar situation. > > I will not chuckle. I will be pissed along with them, that the same company is > still pulling the same crap. > > mark > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > For my personal use, I purchase RHEL license from eBay. (WS & ES) Usually they are IBM or Dell distribued RHEL disks and usually they are older versions. The first time I registered and "enrolled" the Dell-distributed RHEL at RHN. Then, I downloaded the ISO of the version I wanted/needed. After burning the ISO to disc, I use the discs to install RHEL. NO PROBLEMS! At work they purchase either directly from Red Hat or from their software vendor. I do the same thing. NO PROBLEMS! $Work and I use HP Proliants for ES/AS and I use HP business laptops for WS/ES. I use Ubuntu for Dell laptops. (much prettier!) If linux is a UNIX or UNIX-like OS, then think like a UNIX admin--there is ALWAYS more than one way to do anything in UNIX. Since UNIX admins are lazy--do things the easy way. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
