Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Andrew Fant <andrew.fant@×××××.edu>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] compaq raid "cpqarray" not detected; trying to install 1.4
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:42:37
Message-Id: 181150000.1077208950@flux.usg.tufts.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] compaq raid "cpqarray" not detected; trying to install 1.4 by Kurt Lieber
1 IIRC, those old proliants required you to boot off from their services cd
2 before starting the install. I know that getting Linux on them was a PITA
3 and I switched to less anal vendors after the second system I had to
4 install. That was a few years back though, so my memory could be playing
5 tricks on me.
6
7 Andy
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10 --On Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:37:47 -0500 Kurt Lieber
11 <klieber@g.o> wrote:
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13 > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:32:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Covington, Chris
14 > wrote:
15 >> I'm a big newbie and all that. Just trying to install 1.4 on an old SMP
16 >> Compaq Proliant 1600 (dual Pentium II 450, 36GB RAID 1 w/SmartArray 221
17 >> controller).
18 >
19 > I'm pretty sure there's something on this in the forums. Might try
20 > searching there.
21 >
22 > --kurt