Hello everybody,
I've just suscribed to the list after discovering it recently. I'm not strictly an ISP, but I provide various services for 150-200 users.
I would like to run woody on HP Compaq Proliant ML350 G3 (no choice of the model because of public market reasons). Before buying some machines, I would like to check if woody can be installed on. Actually, colleagues of mine own some (running FreeBSD) and proposed me to try to install woody on one box. The hardware is :
raid controller : smartarray 641 ethernet NIC : BCM5702 (subsystem : NC7760)
This will be my first woody install on raid hardware, so I'm inexperienced.
Colleagues told me that woody install fails due to "old" kernel 2.4.18-bf24 which doesn't include recent modules for the raid (cciss) and the NIC (tg3 seems better than bcm5700). I've searched the list archive but I didn't really find an answer.
There is a workaround described in http://www.riedmann.it/linux/linux-proliant.htm : using an additionnal scsi card, an additionnal scsi drive an an additionnal NIC, all well known by the woody installer. But this seems a little complicated to me. Well, if this is the price...
Is anybody there that have more or less painlessly succeeded a woody install on ML350 G3 or similar hardware? If yes, how?
Any clue/tip/link will be warmly welcomed :-)
Cheers,
Emmanuel
-- Emmanuel Halbwachs Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures tel : (+33)1 69 63 61 34 CNRS UPR 20 fax : (+33)1 69 63 60 06 Route de Nozay mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 91460 Marcoussis France
