My experience was the same (albeit with IBM servers and Ubuntu rather than CentOS).<br><br>1: Use the hardware manufacturer utilities to configure the RAID array<br><br>2: Install the OS as if onto a single disk<br><br>No experience with CentOS, I'm afraid - we went with Ubuntu because it was free BUT there was the option of commercial support at a later date, either from the manufacturer or a whole host of third parties if we decided that looking after the servers ourselves wasn't what we wanted to do.
<br><br>Has it been stable? Well, one of our servers is still running "5.10" (Breezy), which as the version number indicates was released in October 05.<br><br>Mark<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2007 10:55 AM, Ian Harper <
<a href="mailto:idharper@gmail.com">idharper@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
On 21/12/2007, Philip Harper <<a href="mailto:ph004h7245@blueyonder.co.uk">ph004h7245@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> I've just got a HP ML110 server, and I don't really/can't afford to pay for<br>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux....am I right in thinking I can install CentOS
<br>> instead?<br>><br>> I'm also not sure about how to setup RAID.<br>><br><br></div>Yes Centos will be fine - we use it on DL360's DL140's etc with no<br>probs. Re Raid depends on what controllers you have, on mine you go
<br>into controller bios and configure a raid i.e. raid 1 and then reboot<br>with centos install disk in and it sees a raid device to install on -<br>works a treat.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Ian<br></font><div><div></div>
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