Re: HP DL380 G4 and Debian Sarge
Did anyone add the info below to the server hardware page wiki?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Halbwachs" <Emmanuel.Halbwachs@lpn.cnrs.fr>
To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 November, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: HP DL380 G4 and Debian Sarge
> Hello,
>
> Rafał Dąbrowa a écrit :
> > I want to buy SERVER HP DL380 G4 and install on them Debian Sarge.
This
> [...]
>
> > I want to know or every drivers works correct if I want install debian
sarge
> > from CD with default settings in kernel 2.4.x . After then I want
upgrade
> > kernel to 2.6.x. I want to use Hardware RAID-5 for 4 harddisks.
>
> I have no experience with DL380 G4, only with DL350 G4 and DL360 G4.
> With this models, installing sarge was straightforward, 2.4 or 2.6.
> SmartArray 6x driver : cciss
> NIC driver : tg3
> Everything was autodetected by debian-installer.
>
> Then come the health monitoring agents (hpasm) and the useful "HP
> System Management Homepage" (hpsmh), a web frontend for the agents.
> This software is provided by HP only in RPM format for RH, Suse and UL.
>
> The one-stop website to use HP Proliant with Debian is :
>
> http://debian.catsanddogs.com/forum/index.php
>
> You will find there diff files to use with alien to convert the RPM
> into DEB (hpasm, hpsmh). Same for the RAID Array Configuration Utility
> (hpacucli). Tested here with 2.4 and 2.6 Debian stock 686 (smp or not)
> kernels.
>
> For using iLO (the remote control of the server over e. g. SSH), there's
> Matt Taggart's page :
>
> http://lackof.org/matt/hacking/proliant/
>
> With this two *very* useful resources, I am happily running sarge
> on DL3[5-6]0 G4.
>
> > Meybe I shall buy another server whith will be better solution ?
>
> This is really a matter of taste. Have a look on this page on the wiki
> who appeared after a recent thread on this list :
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/ServerHardware
>
> HTH,
>
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