Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I don't keep a backup server in the safety deposit box :), I keep the backup media. In this case, big USB stick (hard drives don't fit and This opens

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:54:38PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the kernel that e.g.

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: installer could find the disk on which to install. I don't know if the installer program has a means of adding a module then rescanning for hard drives. Ah, I never thought of the installer failing to find the boot drive.. I

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:18:23AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. I would like to

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see if it sees the drives. Note that embedded sata raid controllers are generally fake

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see if it sees the

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thank you very much for your reply! Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel but

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thank you very much for your reply! Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel but debian can't include. For

HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. I would like to consult debian community to see if anyone have some experience with installing