Re: Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
Im installing debian on a 120 G7 I can get Lenny installed but when I try to upgrade or directly install to squeeze the raid controller seems to go missing probably a firmware issue still fault finding but I found your question so thought I would answer Simon PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Simon Quantrill simon.quantr...@bmtargoss.com wrote: Im installing debian on a 120 G7 I can get Lenny installed but when I try to upgrade or directly install to squeeze the raid controller seems to go missing probably a firmware issue still fault finding but I found your question so thought I would answer Thanks for the reply, fortunately I don't need raid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvyrmrru45wzf+ejsvepuyfw2+750yq95oz4jus-nhl...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html Hi, Recently I installed Debian on a HP ProLiant ML110 G6. and I am very happy with the performance. I didn't install any driver, but I didn't install the X server. But I also think the X-server should work out of the box. I tried an old live Ubuntu CD distribution and the X-server worked fine. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cak00fol645dhf9htqh5gdr3umrerz+vjxjchd+oue4qgmn0...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Jul 12, 2011 5:12 PM, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html Hi, Recently I installed Debian on a HP ProLiant ML110 G6. and I am very happy with the performance. I didn't install any driver, but I didn't install the X server. But I also think the X-server should work out of the box. I tried an old live Ubuntu CD distribution and the X-server worked fine. I never really looked into it but have experienced issues with x on some models with the front vga port.
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 19:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/7/2011 3:10 PM, frank thyes wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:17 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html I have a lot of hp g7 boxes installed with squeeze using FAI. HP has many Proliant models with the G7 suffix, and they all have different chipsets under the hood. So this statement is totally unhelpful to the OP. No it isn't. A lot implies for me different boxes and different chip sets as well. Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310206409.2460.4.camel@leela
Re: OT: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:16:17 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you don't see any usable disks it might take a bit longer :) If don't see any disk is when you start sweating :-P No, as long as there wasn't a click-click noise before, I wouldn't sweat, I wouldn't wait, but open the PC case and reconnect the SATA cables ;). Usually the poltergeist disconnect SATA cables. Time to change the connectors by those new SATA connectors with a clip, a friend found out that poltergeists are to stupid to disconnect this modern SATA connectors. I'm afraid you didn't get it :-) When hard disks are connected to the controller and installer cannot detect the disks in there, that usually means that your controller has been setup as a RAID controller and kernel cannot even recognized them, so you will need to: a) Get/load an additional driver b) Change your RAID config to AHCI o SATA c) Load a most updated kernel d) Get a real hardware RAID card :-P Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.09.10.36...@gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Jul 8, 2011 8:14 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: HP has many Proliant models with the G7 suffix, and they all have different chipsets under the hood. So this statement is totally unhelpful to the OP. Think Civic EX, Accord EX, etc. Yes, that's why we weren't comparing g7's (generation 7), which is more along the lines of comparing model year cars. It seems that they started with g1 when HP got Compaq and have done a new generation about every year (I'm not a salesman so I'm probably wrong on this point, but wiki if you're really interested). So, if someone compares a dl120g3 with a dl120g4 I might comment on using such an old box for a server but wouldn't expect the implied or written support to change much.
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Depending on your hard disk configuration, you may want to consider a more powerful RAID card that provides additional raid levels plus battery backup or at least adding the hot-plug advanced pack... Thanks for the suggestion. I will use this server as a no-frills samba fileserver. There is no need for 24/7 uptime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvxnujsf9amotkor4kph+oeknobylcjdkea7wty5vrq...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:10 PM, frank thyes fr...@anotheria.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:17 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html I have a lot of hp g7 boxes installed with squeeze using FAI. Thanks. It's good to know these servers work properly with Debian in production :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvwr3wknye105hpsayg4crvub8yrmtkmkff41s9s9q8...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:59:01 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Depending on your hard disk configuration, you may want to consider a more powerful RAID card that provides additional raid levels plus battery backup or at least adding the hot-plug advanced pack... Thanks for the suggestion. I will use this server as a no-frills samba fileserver. There is no need for 24/7 uptime A RAID system is not just to have a 24/7 uptime but to prevent data loss due to a hard disk malfunction. But if you are not planning to make use of the embedded RAID controller facility at all then it's fine. You've been already warned... ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.08.16.12...@gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Jul 7, 2011 12:20 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I also think so but one thing is getting it running and another one is making use of server's specific features, like the RAID controller (if present). To me that is one in the same. No raid, no disk, no install. But, have no fear - you'll have a good idea how long the install is liable to take once you try to start the install. If you don't see any usable disks it might take a bit longer :) That said, I've never had a problem with ProLiant boxes. Though I don't have hundreds of installs on them (probably 50+) of just 3 models (spanning the years)... I can tell you everything you might to know about the dl360. I've had tons of gripes about Dell hardware though.
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:19:24 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Jul 7, 2011 12:20 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I also think so but one thing is getting it running and another one is making use of server's specific features, like the RAID controller (if present). To me that is one in the same. No raid, no disk, no install. But, have no fear - you'll have a good idea how long the install is liable to take once you try to start the install. If you don't see any usable disks it might take a bit longer :) If don't see any disk is when you start sweating :-P That said, I've never had a problem with ProLiant boxes. Though I don't have hundreds of installs on them (probably 50+) of just 3 models (spanning the years)... I can tell you everything you might to know about the dl360. I've had tons of gripes about Dell hardware though. Yep, that's what I said before: Debian seems to be in love with HP mid- range/high-end HP racked Proliant servers (DL-3xxx and upwards). The problem could be with their low-end models, but again, if no RAID setup is in mind, HP makes a very good hardware, I agree. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.08.17.03...@gmail.com
OT: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
Forwarded Message From: Camaleón On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:19:24 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: If you don't see any usable disks it might take a bit longer :) If don't see any disk is when you start sweating :-P No, as long as there wasn't a click-click noise before, I wouldn't sweat, I wouldn't wait, but open the PC case and reconnect the SATA cables ;). Usually the poltergeist disconnect SATA cables. Time to change the connectors by those new SATA connectors with a clip, a friend found out that poltergeists are to stupid to disconnect this modern SATA connectors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310152577.12968.174.camel@debian
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On 7/7/2011 10:17 AM, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html The DL120 G7 has the Intel C200 chipset with 6 integrated SATA3 ports. This is supported by the standard Debian kernels AFAIK with the latest AHCI driver. Connect the 4 drive backplane to 4 of these ports and you should be fine. If you have the base model, do not use the included Smart Array B110i. It is a fakeraid solution and on top of that requires an extra license key to enable it. Thus you're better off using Linux software RAID. If you want a fully supported real PCIe RAID card, buy an LSI and avoid all the HP nonsense required to enable all the features that LSI (and others) gives you out of the box. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e179be9.6070...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On 7/7/2011 3:10 PM, frank thyes wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:17 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html I have a lot of hp g7 boxes installed with squeeze using FAI. HP has many Proliant models with the G7 suffix, and they all have different chipsets under the hood. So this statement is totally unhelpful to the OP. Think Civic EX, Accord EX, etc. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e179d2b.8050...@hardwarefreak.com
Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvxrzym7nep_wak5qc_1xs83cdr62ukp3ug1xzb5t1p...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On 07/07/11 at 05:17pm, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html IMO, linux is linux. I find it unlikely that RedHat and SuSE have custom drivers built in to their kernels that aren't in the main tree. I can't say for sure regarding models, but I've installed linux on hundreds of HP servers so it's likely to work. Your best bet is to give it a go and see! -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:25:19 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: On 07/07/11 at 05:17pm, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html IMO, linux is linux. I find it unlikely that RedHat and SuSE have custom drivers built in to their kernels that aren't in the main tree. It's very common that in these servers, RAID controller drivers -for instance- are only available for the supported OSes and specific kernel version so careful with that. I can't say for sure regarding models, but I've installed linux on hundreds of HP servers so it's likely to work. Your best bet is to give it a go and see! It looks to me that HP is Debian friendly when it comes to mid-range/high- end server models (DL-3xx and upper) but for low-end models things change a lot and depending on the user needs it can be a problem. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.07.15.33...@gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:25:19 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: On 07/07/11 at 05:17pm, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html IMO, linux is linux. I find it unlikely that RedHat and SuSE have custom drivers built in to their kernels that aren't in the main tree. It's very common that in these servers, RAID controller drivers -for instance- are only available for the supported OSes and specific kernel version so careful with that. I can't say for sure regarding models, but I've installed linux on hundreds of HP servers so it's likely to work. Your best bet is to give it a go and see! It looks to me that HP is Debian friendly when it comes to mid-range/high- end server models (DL-3xx and upper) but for low-end models things change a lot and depending on the user needs it can be a problem. I didn't see your model on the Debian wiki page, but I bet it works anyway. I spoke to one of the HP open source people at a conference and he more or less confirmed that despite the lack of official support from HP, Debian runs on their hardware. For peace of mind, I would look at the potentially odd stuff like the raid controller and make sure you can either run it with open drivers or that a blob is available for it. http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caejohsre9x0t1ykoz81fhstprovsbr7o8kn_jefoey+7iey...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:57:10 -0700, Matt Richardson wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) I can't say for sure regarding models, but I've installed linux on hundreds of HP servers so it's likely to work. Your best bet is to give it a go and see! It looks to me that HP is Debian friendly when it comes to mid-range/high- end server models (DL-3xx and upper) but for low-end models things change a lot and depending on the user needs it can be a problem. I didn't see your model on the Debian wiki page, but I bet it works anyway. I spoke to one of the HP open source people at a conference and he more or less confirmed that despite the lack of official support from HP, Debian runs on their hardware. For peace of mind, I would look at the potentially odd stuff like the raid controller and make sure you can either run it with open drivers or that a blob is available for it. http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant I also think so but one thing is getting it running and another one is making use of server's specific features, like the RAID controller (if present). For a normal use, there should be no problems or at least no more than the usual ones. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.07.16.19...@gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
Thanks for the help! I've got the complete specs here: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14009_na/14009_na.HTML The smart array might be a problem. But overall it should work. It is especially good to know HP is aware and supportive of Debian. Here are the specs in short: * Intel® Xeon® E3-1220 (3.10GHz/4-core/8MB/80W,, 1333, Turbo 1/2/3/4) Processor * HP Smart Array B110i * HP NC112i 1-port Ethernet Server (Intel 82574L chipset) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvxqflcqgmqa0xx_mgdgdnnrevxw_047jehocgnsqxt...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:44:29 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: Thanks for the help! I've got the complete specs here: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14009_na/14009_na.HTML The smart array might be a problem. But overall it should work. It is especially good to know HP is aware and supportive of Debian. Here are the specs in short: * Intel® Xeon® E3-1220 (3.10GHz/4-core/8MB/80W,, 1333, Turbo 1/2/3/4) Processor * HP Smart Array B110i * HP NC112i 1-port Ethernet Server (Intel 82574L chipset) Depending on your hard disk configuration, you may want to consider a more powerful RAID card that provides additional raid levels plus battery backup or at least adding the hot-plug advanced pack... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.07.18.48...@gmail.com
Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:17 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian page. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html I have a lot of hp g7 boxes installed with squeeze using FAI. Regards Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310069450.2414.1.camel@leela
