Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:09:50 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef@mdanderson.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X Message-ID: <43B40A4E.2090105@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <200512290945.17565.syjef@mdanderson.org> References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> <200512290945.17565.syjef@mdanderson.org>
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Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: >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. > > LS20=AMD-Blades. Hard to find, even on the IBM-website (they are not listed on the blade-page, but rather on the AMD-servers page - thank you, IBM). >>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. > > I can get RHEL installed (though installing RHEL4 is a PITA), but I don't like it ;-) cheers, Rainer
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