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Leech:
void main,
Thanks man, how did you kow that was the chip I was looking for.
Your server sounds a little bigger than mine, The proSignia 200 is only for small to medium busoiness, I installed a new Dell server at a customer for terminal sessions. He had this server lying around, and it had UNIX on it, so I asked him what he was going to do with it and he was going to throw it away. So, as I always like new gadgets, I took it off his hands in return for
voidmain:
Yeah, I think it's a little bigger. Believe it or not I bought it from a client I work for for $100. It's been doing heavy duty work for almost 2 years now.
That client used to run all Compaq. They have since switched to all Dell. I have a lot of Dell experience from my previous employer as well plus my personal side business owns a few Dell PowerEdge servers. I've been putting in a lot of the rackmounts at several clients and my side business uses Dell rack mount PowerEdge servers for our network monitoring configurations. RedHat and Dell go together like white on rice. I've been running RedHat on PowerEdge for about 5 years and have never had a single problem, EVER. I can't say the same for NT and 2K on PowerEdge.
But as I mentioned, that Compaq SCSI controller was a little tricky but once you figure out the right LILO parameter to get the install going it's a piece of cake, and it has also been rock solid. I do run Linux on a lot of Compaq desktop machines without any trouble (no funky SCSI controller).
Leech:
The Dell server I installed was also a poweredge, strange. It's almost as if we are leading the same life on differant sides of the atlantic.
The last company I worked for had a lot of call for Rackmount servers but they were custom built.
The clients we have at this company are too tight assed to purchase a rackmounted server, so haven't touched one for over a year.
I'll let you know what happens with the SCSI issue. I hope it runssmooth, I got all my books and stuff, so fingers crossed it'll be cool.
Cheers man,
LeeeeeeeeeeeeeecH!
Master of Reality:
you could compile your own kernel and make sure you compile whatver scsi support you need into it.
My server that hosts The Bob Hub, a proxy, and an FTP server (sometimes). Is a 166MHz (Pentium MMX?) with 32MB of RAM (upgraded from 16 so i could put on RedHat). It is running redhat 7.3.
I havent tried BYO linux, but i have attempted LFS twice and failed. I am gonna try it again on my slackware machine.
Hey void main, i thought you were running RedHat 6.2 or somethin'?
voidmain:
In his case he doesn't have to compile the kernel as the support should already be there. The problem is it just doesn't properly detect the controller and requires some boot params passed to the contoller kernel module. Besides, it's usually easier to compile the kernel if you have a running system but in this case the system is not installed. You are right though, if you did have some hardware that wasn't supported by the install kernel you could create your own kernel with the support for that hardware on a different machine, then create your own install disk using that kernel.
Now his version of SuSe may be too old to work but I know the RedHat 6.x series had support, just had to pass some boot parameters. The newer kernels may detect it properly and not require the boot parameters but I'm not driving 300 miles to find out, and I don't want to lose my uptime record.
[ October 02, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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