Preface
- In this paper I try to explain how you can install Red Hat 5.2 on a Compaq Proliant. Actually the discribed procedures will work on any Compaq machine with a (Smart) Array Controler. For installing Red Hat 6.x on a Compaq with a smart array controller there are some usefull links in this paper.
- If you want to install Slackware on your Compaq you should take a look here.
- Before you begin you should take a look at the following web sites :
Introduction
A few months agoo we wanted to install Oracle for Linux on one of our Compaq Proliant servers. For this purpose I created a set of disks to install Red Hat 5.2 on our server with a Smart Array controller. I decided to share my work with the Linux community, in my opinion is this one of the great things of Linux, and wrote a small paper how I created the disks. After I published my paper on the web I got about 15 emails a day with questions about my disks. Because I couldn't answer all of them I created a mailing list with the purpose that the users of the disks could help each other. I may say that this worked and works well. If you want to join the mailing list go
here. I created a FAQ too. You can read it
here. And last but not least you can report a successful installation or ask for additional features throught
this form.
Driver News
- 13 Aug 2000 : Compaq has created a web page for installing Linux on Compaq hardware. You can find it at http://www.compaq.com/linux.
- 1 Feb 2000 : Version 1.0.6 of the Compaq array driver released. The Smart-2 driver for Linux is now (and has been for some time) maintained by Compaq's Storage Products Division. The official home of the driver is ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/drivers/linux.
- 19 Jul 1999 : Version 1.0.5 of the Compaq array driver released. This version fixes some miscellaneous buglets and adds support for new controllers (Smart Array 4200 and 4250ES). This version has been submitted for inclusion in the main kernel sources, and is currently in 2.2.10-ac11.
- 28 Jun 1999 : Version 1.0.2 of the Compaq array driver released. This has the same functionality as 1.0.1 except that it no longer depends on the DAC960 patches.
- 24 May 1999 : Version 1.0.1 of the Compaq array driver released. This release contains a few bugfixes.
- Red Hat 6.0 has been released. I have several reports of a successfull installations. Red Hat 6.0 includes version 0.99 of the driver and the patches for lilo and fdisk.
- The beta release of Red Hat (5.9) called Starbuck has support for the Compaq array driver in the kernel and in the installation program. It seems to work. The only thing that's missing is the patch for lilo. Here is the mailing list archive of Starbuck
- 6 Apr 1999 : Version 1.0 of the Compaq array driver released. The driver is out of beta.
Installation Procedures
