Hi, Joel -- The prevailing feeling here is that the simplest install method ought to work: if the problem that prevents a successful install of Debian 3.0 on an rp2430 was resolved in 2002, the 3.0r2 CDs downloaded in April of 2004 should be up-to-date. (Do let me know if I've misunderstood the postings which seem to indicate this to be the case.) I sense that if any work whatsoever beyond a CD-rom install is needed, I will be directed to scrap our rp2430s in favor of new Dell servers on which we would run Fedora Core 2.
I hope to use one rp2430 as a CUPS print server, and another as an OS install server. Later, another would be deployed as a replacement for a CD/DVD/PDF NFS/Samba cache server. For three machines offering relatively simple services to Pentium Linux boxes, HP-UX workstations, and Windows PCs, doing much more than installing from CD-rom is viewed as difficult to justify, since the kickstart/install process for the Fedora boxes is *relatively* well understood here. Yet these rp2340s are very stable, and have fibre-channel cards with which I have good experience. So I would like to see them used for these specific services. Fortunately there is not yet a huge rush to deploy these services, and it is my hope that the Sarge hppa CDs will resolve this issue for me, by giving me what I want at a cost in terms of time spent that my manager will accept. After all, once the software is installed on the box, everything will work on the first try, won't it? :-) Have a great day! Don -- Donald S. Glascock Mailstop RO-SN-2-220 Special Purpose Processor Development Group Mayo Foundation Rochester, MN 55905 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.507.538.5467 +1.507.284.9171 (fax) http://www.mayo.edu/sppdg "No matter where you go, there you are." -----Original Message----- From: Joel Soete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:10 AM To: Glascock, Donald S.; [email protected] Subject: RE: shiny new rp2430 (A400) won't boot :-( > Are you recommending that I wait for the next release (3.0r3?), > burn those CDs, and see if things work better? Don't you have the opportunity to prepare your boot disk on an other system (even a 32bit machine is good enough) on which you can install a recent 64 bit kernel of your choice for your A? If not prefer a netinst.iso (available near: <http://www.pateam.org/cd-images/testing/>) hth, Joel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Tiscali ADSL: 35 €/mois, la meilleure offre du marché! http://reg.tiscali.be/default.asp?lg=fr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
