From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 12:02 PM
To: Bernard Li
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG motherboard
> > and make sure to have latest bios installed
R1.0C
> > http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/
>
>
Are you running the latest BIOS?
Probably not. I don't know how to update
this. These machines are in rack
mount cases, and do not have CDs or floppy
drives in and I cannot easily
put in an extra ethernet card either to test
them. I can take the lot apart
and put a floppy in each one, one by one, but
there seems to be the problem
that there are no (small) power connectors for
floppy drives.
I'm going to have to leave it until after the weekend to
decide what to do
with these.
I seriously advise anyone considering
using OSCAR not to buy this supermicro
board - I've already wasted two weeks
trying to install in them. The vendor
that sold me these machines said they
were fully Linux compliant, but
clearly the supermicro boards are not as easy
to use as other boards by
ASUS or TYAN that I have used in the
past.
