Am Do, den 22.04.2004 schrieb Lucas Albers um 19:54: > >> Hu? I installed Woody (bf24) on a couple of DL380G3 without a hitch - > >> the cciss works just fine and you can of course boot from it. > >> The only "special" thing I do is to load the module for the installed > >> NIC (Broadcom bcm57xx - tg3.o) so I can download a new kernel as soon as > >> the base-system is installed... > We are planning to get some proliant DL380G2 systems. > With the HP Smart Array HP Smart Array 6402 controller.
Do you really mean DL380G2 and not DL380G3? G2 is out-of-production for quite some time now... The DL380G3 has a SmartArray 5i onboard, so you wont need an extra RAID controller unless you need more channels. > You installed onto this system using sarge? > Or drivers disks with bf24? > I'm very interested in your setup steps. I just installed another DL380G3 yesterday with Woody. Even using iLO as no monitor was nearby and I was too lazy to get one... Here's my procedure - definitely easier than Nathans approach ;o) Prepare a floppy with the module for the GbE interfaces. Get the source from Broadcom and compile against 2.4.18-bf24 or use the module from my website (http://people.iirc.at/moswald/linux/bf24_modules/bcm5700/). Copy bmc5700.o to your floppy into the /boot directory. - Put in a standard Woody CD, boot from it and start with bf24 - Continue as on any other system - Before you can setup your network, choose "preload modules from floppy" and insert the disk with the module and load it - Configure network and continue as usual - Reboot - Before finishing the installation, change to another console and load module from floppy again [1] and setup your network. - Switch back to the first console and continue with installation, download security-fixes and maybe a new kernel [2] I think it's quite straightforward, as you just need to preload a single modules from floppy - the rest is just another Woody setup... And if you want sarge, well, install woody and update to sarge - definitely a lot less work ;o) [1] Copy it to your disk and adapt /etc/modules if you want to continue using 2.4.18-bf24. I usually install a current kernel before I reboot again so I don't care... [2] I've packaged DL380G3 kernels and the corresponding .config on my website - they're used on quite a few servers. -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415 \ System Consulting Fax: +43 316 428896 \ Web Development