Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[David Bottrill <david.bottrill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:55, dallam wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I got a proliant 5000R server a short time ago, within the past week
> I decided to have a go installing 7.3 on it. The install progressed
> normally until partitioning and yast told me I didn't have a hard
> drive. I searched the compaq reference site and found a reference to
> this /w SuSE 6.4 along with a statement that compaq didn't support
> 6.4. I also found an article on the same site stating that in order
> to install linux on a proliant server you needed to use the
> smartstart cd and configure the server for linux. This information
> was a bit dated as it referenced 6.4 and nothing newer than 7.2 pro.
> My question is does anyone have any experience installing SuSE on
> one of these machines? If so, is the reference to having to use
> smartstart cd still current for 7.3?
> BTW, I have really not gotten a definitive yes or no from compaq
> server support so I thought I would ask here.

I have installed SuSE 7.3 on Proliant 2500, 800 and Prosignia 300
servers as well as 8.0 on the Prosignia.A friend has also installed SuSE
7.3 on a elderly professional workstation, which has the motherboard
from a Proliant 850.

SuSE correctly identified both the onboard SCSI and PCI RAID Controller
card. The only problem I had was with the 2500s SuSE only detected 16MB
of RAM so I booted with the mem=XXXM option and all was well. It did
actually install at 16MB, but it took ages as it was constantly paging
to swap.

David Bottrill