you ought to try the software first. I don't see how they could
"not support" 6.0... it is primarily an upgrade to the 2.2 kernel,
which you would want anyway. And I don't see any library issues
that would make 6.0 not work. I run it everywhere here, although I
am waiting on a cheapbytes 6.1 CD to arrive to try that...
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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(205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station
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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, John Rowan wrote:
> Just received our new Gateway (ALR) 8200 series server this week. Aside
> from Federal Express puting a fork lift through the bottom of the box and
> ripping the pull rails off the hot swap power supply it's a nice box. Dual
> PentiumII 450MHz, 128MB RAM and ADAC RAID card driving 4 9.1GB SCSI drives
> in a RAID5 setup.
>
> Red Hat v6.0 installed like a champ: RAID, SMP and recovered from me
> choosing the wrong monitor for the X configuration. Nice stuff.
>
> We're converting from a PICK base OS to Linux as PICK as an operating system
> won't be supported come January 2000 (from what we've been told).
>
> After we placed the order our software developer/support company informed us
> that they don't support v6.x and require 5.2.
>
> I tried to install 5.2 last night but it doesn't have the drivers for the
> ADAC RAID card.
>
> Is there any way to locate the drivers from the 6.x CD and copy them to the
> floppy for a 5.2 install? Also, since 5.2 doesn't do SMP as part of the
> install what can I do to get 5.2 to install with SMP as the default rather
> than having to learn how to recompile the kernel?
>
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