[Wylug-help] HP proliant

[Richard Layden]

We were in a similar situation t'other month.  Rescued an old proliant
server from another part of College to play with (similar spec to
yours).

I think the link below should find you a smartstart disk (apologies if
you've since found it)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/site/search/r4_0/jsp/search.jsp?lan
g=en&cc=uk&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=316590&tx=smartstart&sc=2&cf=1&
nh=10&rf=0&lkc=1&lk=1&sts=51

Once you configure the underlying stuff (raid controllers and what-not
all done with the smartstart wizard) it should be straightforward to get
your OS on.  

I'm a bit of a kit-whore and I hate to throw things away...I used ours
to play about with vmware images - perversely I installed Windows XP as
a virtual machine and it ran tolerably well over an rdp session.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Scott Hodgson
Sent: 20 May 2008 10:48
To: James Holden
Cc: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] HP proliant

James Holden wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:12:36PM +0100, Scott Hodgson wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I got a skipped HP proliant server to learn on, it has 512mb ram and
2 
>> p3 processors I downloaded ubuntu 8.04 server edition. I have a
problem 
>> where I have never used a server before.  When th CD gets to the
options 
>> page of installing, check cd, check memory etc Istart one of the 
>> programs and hangs after loading kernel.  What am I doing wrong? do I

>> need to change the internal settings?
>>     
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Sounds like it needs some extra kernel parameters to boot properly.
>
> Googling for ubuntu proliant cd kernel install hang gives lots of
likely
> looking results. Have a look through and see if any seem to match your
> equipment and the circumstances of the hang.
>
> Or... it could just be kippered, given that it was in a skip. ;-)
>   

When I said skipped I mean it was to be skipped as they had upgraded the

servers so I asked for it.  Unfortunately I have no idea on the model 
server it is, I have looked all over it and I can't get hold of the 
bloke I got it off nearly a year ago.
> James
>
>   
>> Scottbh
>>
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