Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-29 Thread Markus Kolb
Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 04:21, Markus Kolb wrote: [...] configuration problem they will tell you first: Install a supported OS and look if it will do the job. That's all. If you want and need the expensive, paid support you should better do what they say. So setup the machine as

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-28 Thread Markus Kolb
Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 04:21, Markus Kolb wrote: [...] configuration problem they will tell you first: Install a supported OS and look if it will do the job. That's all. If you want and need the expensive, paid support you should better do what they say. So setup the machine as d

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 28 May 2003 04:21, Markus Kolb wrote: > The problem with support is not that there might be difficulties in > installing a piece of software on the hardware. > But if there are problems with hardware and it could be a software or > configuration problem they will tell you first: Install a s

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 28 May 2003 04:21, Markus Kolb wrote: > The problem with support is not that there might be difficulties in > installing a piece of software on the hardware. > But if there are problems with hardware and it could be a software or > configuration problem they will tell you first: Install a s

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Alex Borges
You should know that HP is debian friendly (they still wont offer support though), but they do work with debian internally and informally test. I use DELL big baddass servers and smaller (hwIDE-RAID Barracuda arrays) in HP and ive never had a problem at all... Ask the ones who want you to install

RE: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Jones, Steven
Compaq do not support Debian, what binaries Compaq have released are rpms. Indeed for the older kit the only rpms are for 6.2 and have not been updated, so thier support is shocking, Dell seem better. I dont have problems running Debian on Compaq hardware raid (3200s) and while the machine should b

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Alex Borges
You should know that HP is debian friendly (they still wont offer support though), but they do work with debian internally and informally test. I use DELL big baddass servers and smaller (hwIDE-RAID Barracuda arrays) in HP and ive never had a problem at all... Ask the ones who want you to install

RE: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Jones, Steven
Compaq do not support Debian, what binaries Compaq have released are rpms. Indeed for the older kit the only rpms are for 6.2 and have not been updated, so thier support is shocking, Dell seem better. I dont have problems running Debian on Compaq hardware raid (3200s) and while the machine should b

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Markus Kolb
Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: Hi I must migrate my servers to Compaq Proliant DL360G3 machines. We're looking several IDCs, and all of them say "Only support for RedHat, SuSE and Caldera". I want to use Debian (I don't like very much SuSE, I've not used neither Red Hat nor Caldera, and it's hard to

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Markus Kolb
Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: Hi I must migrate my servers to Compaq Proliant DL360G3 machines. We're looking several IDCs, and all of them say "Only support for RedHat, SuSE and Caldera". I want to use Debian (I don't like very much SuSE, I've not used neither Red Hat nor Caldera, and it's hard to

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Mathieu Meylan
Hi, I'm hostmaster for a provider in Swizerland (CH - ~2 customers), and a use debian 3.0/kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.21 on Proliant DL380 ByPIII800Mhz with RAID controler cpqarray SMART2 (Driver v. 2.4.5). No problem for install, on the install boot kernel -> choise expert mode -> and select the

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Christofer Algotsson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:10:22PM +0200, Tom?s N??ez Lirola wrote: > Hi > I must migrate my servers to Compaq Proliant DL360G3 machines. We're looking > several IDCs, and all of them say "Only support for RedHat, SuSE and > Caldera". I want to use Debian (I don't like very much SuSE, I've not us

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Tue, 27 May 2003 at 14:10:22 +0200, Tom?s Nú?ez Lirola wrote: > Hi > I must migrate my servers to Compaq Proliant DL360G3 machines. We're looking > several IDCs, and all of them say "Only support for RedHat, SuSE and Quite a frequent disclaimer... > Caldera". I want to use Debian (I don't li

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 27 May 2003 22:10, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > Anyway... Does anybody have any experience with this machine (or similar) > and Debian? Is there any website where I can take a look on the > compatibility of this machine (or similar) and Debian? > > Do you recommend me to be stubborn and inst

Re: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Samuele Catusian
We have a Compaq Proliant DL320 (PIII @ 1266MHz) running Debian Woody and amanda acting as a backup server, and it runs pretty well. I didn't managed with the Compaq's Agents since I don't need much hardware diagnostics, but however I'd prefer using lm_sensor instead of the provided SuSE/RedHat rpm