Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:45:09 -0600 From: Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef@mdanderson.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Andrea Brancatelli <andrea@brancatelli.it>, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Subject: Re: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X Message-ID: <200512290945.17565.syjef@mdanderson.org> In-Reply-To: <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday 29 December 2005 09:29, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Are you sure it's not USB? > We have a LS20 blade-center and the whole media-bay (where floppy and > cdrom live) and the KVM are connected via USB - it's even USB1.1, so > installling something from CDROM is dead-slow (in addition, the > brain-dead java remote-console together with this USB-CDROM-crazyness > makes remote-installation of RHEL3+4 impossible...). I'm not sure what type the LS20 is (we have JS20 PowerPC blades running AIX). I do believe all of the internal connections are USB. > > Your floppy is not SCSI, rather it's connected via USB and the kernel > makes it look like a SCSI-device... > > We've got no local drives, only SAN and as such FreeBSD is pretty much a > no-go. I need something that works (and is supported) with my SAN... > If you can get RHEL installed that is supported, though I guess it depends on the type of storage you have. It is supported by IBM storage, as is SUSE. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDtASNqUvQmqp7omYRAhLLAJ9B6H3WT+I6RHuSolHNGA5qOlRxmgCeM41Z A1amNO83YvEz0dakgULcf+s= =Gx2s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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