RHEL4 and HP Proliant server

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:10:07 -0500
>From: "Kristoffer Knigga" <Kknigga at arrow-financial.com>  
>
>Are these drivers not on the SmartStart CD?

I gather they are... except that the only SmartStart CD he has, once you get past the drivers selection... is for WinDoze.

       mark "he's talking to HP now"
>
>
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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gaddis, Jeremy L.
>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:57 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server
>
>On 10/23/07, m.roth2006 at rcn.com <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>> Ok, I've got a guy here - he's really a network guy, and he's trying
>to put RHEL4 on a Proliant server, a DL380, I believe. It's *all*
>hardware RAID, and the std. RHEL4 CDs can't id the h/d. He's tried d/l a
>package from HP, but that unzips to a file.dd, which I'm thinking needs
>to be dd'd to something....
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas where he needs to go?
>
>You'll most likely need either the cpqarray or cciss drivers.  I have
>a pair of DL580's that are similar in hardware and that's the modules
>needed for RHEL4 to see the (hardware RAID) volumes.
>
>The file.dd is probably a floppy disk image, which can be written to a
>floppy with "dd if=file.dd of=/dev/fd0".  The drivers on that floppy
>can then be loaded during the installation process.
>
>-- 
>Jeremy L. Gaddis
>http://www.jeremygaddis.com/
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