Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-11 Thread Michael Butash
Well, it was a few years ago, maybe M$ finally made it functional, but originally WSL had no network support. WTF would I want a modern OS, even linux in emulation, to NOT have networking? Even using vbox under windoze running ubuntu linux was very destructive to performance, I was hoping WSL to

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
On a whim I rolled back to my kernel from when It was last running 16.04 successfully (for some reason I thought this would not work) and the server is up and running. Now to find out what was not included to load my disk subsystem. On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:48 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > wei

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
weird. I currently have no issues with networking. and technically it is not an emulation layer. It is supposed to be an api set or something that runs a Linux kernel under windows natively. On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 2:42 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Last time I tried WSL was with getting this lapto

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Michael Butash
Last time I tried WSL was with getting this laptop a few years ago. As a network guy, I sort of just sat there stunned that the frigging thing couldn't network. Why the hell would you make a linux emulation layer that couldn't network? Is this still Ballmer-hate? What the hell is good in this d

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
well microsoft has made good improvements with WSL and you can do some neat things like that On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:27 AM Michael Butash wrote: > Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics > drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv. > > My experie

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Michael Butash
Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv. My experience with arch hasn't been much better of late, so take it for what you will. Arch updates blew up my desktop, and my laptop I'm afraid to reboot as my last w

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-09 Thread Stephen Partington
It is most definitely 64 bit. I had 64 bit 16.04 running like a champ until the 18.04 upgrade was done. It also ran vmware 6.7 well also. On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 9:02 PM Thomas Scott wrote: > I know I had a legacy install on a Proliant I supported that was installed > upside down and burnt out it'

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-09 Thread Thomas Scott
I know I had a legacy install on a Proliant I supported that was installed upside down and burnt out it's drives after a few years (surprised it lasted that long). When I came on-site to reinstall it, I tried to install 16.04 since I already had the install media on me, I couldn't as it had issues

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-09 Thread Todd Cole
I suspect it may be 32Bit computer but it should give you a i386 hardware error during installation. while 18.04 is only 64 bit you can use the net install at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/bionic/ it has a community supported 32 bit version available On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 PM Stephen Par

Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-09 Thread Stephen Partington
I have an older Proliant server I am trying to make use of at home. The hardware is fully functional, and aside from needing some spare drive sleds, It is ready to go. However, I cannot run 18.04 on the server and I suspect it is related to changes in the kernel and I am trying to map those. The