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RE: [compaq-and-linux] Cpq DL380G2 and Mandrake 8.1 + 8.2

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From: John Taylor (JTaylor@Synstar.com)
Date: Thu Mar 28 05:16:28 2002 

Hi Andrew

I'm actually sat infront of a DL380G2 that has just had Redhat 7.1 installed
without problem. I've not tried Mandrake so I can't say how much difference
there is there though.

If you think there is anything I can offer please ask

rgds

John Taylor
Network & Security Manager
Synstar International

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bradshaw [mailto:_tux@postmaster.co.uk]
Sent: 28 March 2002 09:32
To: compaqandlinux@van-dijk.net
Subject: [compaq-and-linux] Cpq DL380G2 and Mandrake 8.1 + 8.2


Hi all

Has anyone had any experience installing onto Compaq DL380G2 servers?

I have PIII/1.2Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 4x9Gb SCSI drives with SmartArray 5i
controller.

>From what I can see in the supported hw list it should work - the
SmartArray 5i is supported in both versions.

When I try 8.1 it installs fine, but won't boot.  Run fdisk and the
partition info is scrambled.

Tried using Partition Magic to pre-create partitions.  Installer still
scrambled them.

D/loaded 8.2.  This time the installer wouldn't go past the partitioning
stage - kept complaining that it needed at least 40kb of swap - I'd
configured 512Mb.  Tried without any swap configured - installed fine.
Just before the final reboot, swapped to console and ran fdisk -l
/dev/cciss/c0d0 - partitions seem fine.

Booted the server; kernel loads, tries to mount / part
(/dev/cciss/c0d0p5) and tells me it isn't an ext2 partition.  e2fsck
won't fix it.

Stuck (:-(.

Help.


Regards

A.

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