From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 15:55:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1A416A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:55:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.251.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E8043D5D for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:55:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: by jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 85D80BC4C; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:45:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Organization: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:45:09 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1293882.vmxx9xC69k"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512290945.17565.syjef@mdanderson.org> Cc: Andrea Brancatelli , Rainer Duffner Subject: Re: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:55:14 -0000 --nextPart1293882.vmxx9xC69k Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= ). =20 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=20 the type of storage you have. It is supported by IBM storage, as is SUSE. =2D-=20 Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX=20 --nextPart1293882.vmxx9xC69k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDtASNqUvQmqp7omYRAhLLAJ9B6H3WT+I6RHuSolHNGA5qOlRxmgCeM41Z A1amNO83YvEz0dakgULcf+s= =Gx2s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1293882.vmxx9xC69k--