Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[David Bottrill <david.bottrill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies to James I sent the reply directly to him, but it may be of
interest to others

David

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 09:51, James.Rocks@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using SuSE 8 which works fine on my own workstation but locks up early
> in the install process on a Proliant 5000 ... it's a dual P200 (pro I
> think) with 512Mb memory and a couple of SCSI disk arrays (thinking of
> making it 1 array with 4, 5 if I can figure how to swap the enclosure, 9GB
> HD's in a RAID 5 array). I'm using the Pro edition, not server, which I
> can't afford (particularly since the machine is at home) :-)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James C. Rocks

Try using the LILO option mem=512M at the LILO prompt from the install
CD, I have found that certainly on Proliant 2500's it fails to correctly
ascertain the correct size and assumes you have only 16MB of RAM, I did
get it to install but it was painful and took all day!!. With the
correct memory size it runs quite well and found the Smart Array
Controller. You should first of all configure the array from the
SmartStart CD, and then install the Compaq diagnostics partition, this
is optional, but recommended.

Hope that helps.

David Bottrill