[Wolves] New Server to setup!

[Philip Harper]

Ah yes....that's the reason why I'm going to go with CentOS the hp drivers
and software are for RHEL and CentOS is I believe based on the open sources
of RHEL and was reading in some forums about someone with same server saying
the RAID controllers and software packages supplied by HP worked ok with
CentOS.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Mark Harrison
  Sent: 21 December 2007 11:09
  To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
  Subject: Re: [Wolves] New Server to setup!


  My experience was the same (albeit with IBM servers and Ubuntu rather than
CentOS).

  1: Use the hardware manufacturer utilities to configure the RAID array

  2: Install the OS as if onto a single disk

  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.

  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.

  Mark



  On Dec 21, 2007 10:55 AM, Ian Harper < idharper at gmail.com> wrote:

    On 21/12/2007, Philip Harper <ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
    > I've just got a HP ML110 server, and I don't really/can't afford to
pay for
    > Red Hat Enterprise Linux....am I right in thinking I can install
CentOS
    > instead?
    >
    > I'm also not sure about how to setup RAID.
    >


    Yes Centos will be fine - we use it on DL360's DL140's etc with no
    probs. Re Raid depends on what controllers you have, on mine you go
    into controller bios and configure a raid i.e. raid 1 and then reboot
    with centos install disk in and it sees a raid device to install on -
    works a treat.

    Ian


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